Academic Overview
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and Postdoctoral Research - Computer Science
Chronology:
• Worked as a postdoctoral research fellow (2018-2024
- Alumni) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick;
• Completed a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Computer Science at the University of Warwick in September 2017;
• Granted with a full PhD scholarship in 2013, which was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC);
• Graduated with a Master of Science (MSc) degree in
Information Technology at the University of Liverpool in
2012.
Research Overview
Worked as a postdoctoral research fellow (2018-2024) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick. The work in which I engaged is as follows: with application to various types of YCbCr and RGB data, I am developing perceptual quantisation and related algorithms — C++ and MATLAB — for the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)/H.265 standard and the Versatile Video Coding (VVC)/H.266 standard. The raw video data to which the proposed algorithms are applied includes medical image data and various types of screen content including camera-captured content and animated content. This work follows on from the research that I conducted prior to the completion of my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Warwick.
https://www.warwick.ac.uk/leeprangnell.
First Author Publications and Preprints
• "Spectral-PQ: A Novel Spectral Sensitivity-Orientated Perceptual Compression Technique for RGB 4:4:4 Video Data",
Cornell University arXiv, 2022 (Paper).
• "HVS-Based Perceptual Color Compression of
Image Data", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2021 (Paper) (Poster) (Slides).
• "Spatiotemporal Adaptive Quantization for the Perceptual Video Coding of RGB 4:4:4 Data",
Cornell University arXiv, 2020 (Paper).
• "Frequency-Dependent Perceptual Quantisation for Visually Lossless Compression Applications",
Cornell University arXiv, 2019 (Paper).
• "JND-Based Perceptual Video Coding for 4:4:4 Screen Content Data in HEVC", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2018 (Paper) (Slides).
• "Visually Lossless Coding in HEVC: A High Bit Depth and 4:4:4 Capable JND-Based Perceptual Quantisation Technique for HEVC", Elsevier Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal, 2018 (Paper).
• "Coding Block-Level Perceptual Video Coding for 4:4:4 Data in HEVC", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Beijing, China, 2017 (Paper) (Poster).
• "Cross-Color Channel Perceptually Adaptive Quantization for HEVC", IEEE Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, Utah, USA, 2017 (Paper) (Poster).
• "Visible Light-Based Human Visual System
Conceptual Model", Cornell University arXiv, 2016 (Paper).
• "Adaptive Quantization Matrices for HD and UHD Resolutions in Scalable HEVC", IEEE Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, Utah, USA, 2016 (Paper) (Poster).
• "Adaptive Quantization by Soft Thresholding in HEVC", IEEE Picture Coding Symposium, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 2015 (Paper) (Poster).
Prior to completing my Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree, I was working in the research domain of Methodologies and Applications in the Department of Computer Science. In my research undertakings, four novel contributions have been proposed in the field of visually lossless coding (perceptual quantisation) for the HEVC
standard, which are presented in the following PhD
thesis:
• PhD Thesis: "Visually Lossless Coding for the HEVC Standard: Efficient Perceptual Quantisation Contributions for HEVC" (Thesis).
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science — University of Warwick
Master of Science (MSc) Information Technology — University of Liverpool
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