Professor David Taubman

Professor David Taubman

Professor
  • B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Sydney, 1986
  • B.E. (Medal) in Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney, 1988
  • M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1992
  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1994.
Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications

Affiliation

  • Professor and Deputy Head of School (Research), School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications (EE&T), UNSW Sydney, Australia
  • Co-director of Kakadu Software Pty. Ltd. and its affiliates Kakadu R&D and Kakadu GPU.

Employment

  • Electricity Commission of N.S.W., Engineer, 1988-1990 
  • Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories, Palo Alto, California, Member of Technical Staff, 1994-1998
  • Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories, Palo Alto, California, Senior Member of Te...
Phone
+61 (2) 9385 5223
E-mail
d.taubman@unsw.edu.au
Location
Rm 446, Building G17

First or sole investigator on 9 successful Australian Research Council discovery applications

  • Highest profile plenary/keynote speeches: ICIP2006 (flagship IEEE image processing conference); ICME2012 (flagship IEEE multimedia processing conferences).  Others include WIAMIS’2010, PCS’2013, Archiving’2019, APSIPA'2020.
  • IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, 2001, sole-authored paper.
  • IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Best Paper Award, 1997, co-authored with PhD supervisor Avideh Zakhor.
  • IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing Best Student Paper Award, 2004, with PhD student Johnson Thie.
  • Received inaugural outstanding reviewer award from IEEE Transactions on Image Processing in 2004.
  • Two separate ISO/IEC Certificates of Appreciation: 2001 and 2005 for contributions to the JPEG2000 family of standards
  • UNSW Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Award (open category), 2014
  • UNSW Faculty of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, 2011
  • NSi Inventor of the Year Award (Information and Communication category), 2009
  • Institute of Engineers Australia Medal (1988) and University of Sydney Medal (1988).

Image Compression

  • Developed the EBCOT algorithm and many of the other core technologies in JPEG2000 Part-1 and in many other parts of the JPEG 2000 family of standards
  • Authored JPEG2000 VM3A, which was the basis of all subsequent verification models
  • Author of Kakadu, a comprehensive software framework for JPEG2000 application developers
  • Author, with Michael Marcellin, of JPEG2000: image compression fundamentals, standards and practice, Kluwer 2002

Video Compression

  • Highly scalable video compression
  • Motion compensated temporal lifting
  • Motion modeling and scalable motion signalling

Image and Video Processing

  • Motion and depth estimation / optical flow
  • Demosaicing of digital colour images
  • Medical image analysis

Multimedia Communication

  • Major contributor to the JPIP standard (JPEG2000 Internet Protocol) for interactive imaging
  • Highly scalable fixed and variable bit-rate video communication
  • Interactive, highly accessible image and video communication systems