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Professor David Scott Taubman is a faculty member and Deputy Head of School (Research) at the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications (EE&T) at UNSW Sydney, Australia. He is also co-director of Kakadu Software Pty. Ltd. and its affiliates Kakadu R&D and Kakadu GPU.
He earned his academic credentials from the University of Sydney and University of California at Berkeley:
- 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
Professor Taubman's research interests span multiple domains within electrical engineering and telecommunications, particularly focusing on:
- Image Compression (EBCOT algorithm, JPEG2000 technologies)
- Video Compression (scalable video compression, motion compensated temporal lifting)
- Image and Video Processing (motion and depth estimation, demosaicing of digital color images, medical image analysis)
- Multimedia Communication (JPIP standard for interactive imaging, scalable communication systems)
He has received numerous scientific awards and honors, including best paper awards from IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing. He has also received teaching awards from UNSW and was recognized with the NSi Inventor of the Year Award.
Professor Taubman has contributed significantly to industry standards:
- Author of the EBCOT coding algorithm adopted in the JPEG2000 standard in November 1998
- Author of Verification Model and associated documentation for JPEG2000
- Central contributor to IS15444-1, IS15444-4, IS15444-9, IS15444-15 and IS15444-17
- Developer of the commercially successful Kakadu Software tools for JPEG2000
He has held various leadership positions at UNSW including Head of the Telecommunications Research Group, Head of the Signal Processing Research Group, and Director of Research at School of EE&T.
