School of Engineering

John W. Woods
Professor
Director, Center for Digital Video and Media http://www.cipr.rpi.edu/people/faculty/woods.html/

Department Affiliation:

Department of Electrical, Computer, & Systems Engineering

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Since 1976 Dr. Woods has been with the ECSE Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, where he is currently Professor and Director of the Center for Next Generation Video. He currently teaches courses in digital signal processing, random processes, and digital image and video processing.

His research interests include image and video estimation, restoration, filtering, and specially video compression coding.

He has authored or coauthored over 100 papers in these fields. He has co-authored one text in the area of probability and random processes (3rd edition, 2002), is the editor of the 1990 book Subband Image Coding, and is editor with Ming Hang of the 1995 Handbook of Visual Communications. During the academic year 1985/1986, he was visiting professor in the Information Theory Group at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He directed the Circuits and Signal Processing Program at the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., in 1987-1988. In 2000, he was on sabbatical as Visiting Professor at Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany, working on video compression problems.