Prashant Ramanathan

Industry Experience

• Chief Software Architect at Zeitera (content-based video fingerprinting and identification)

• Senior Software Engineer at Truveo (web video search)

• Staff Engineer at NetEnrich (remote desktop)

Academic Background

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2005. Advisor: Bernd Girod. Thesis: Compression and Interactive Streaming of Light Fields.

• M.S. in Electrical Engineeering, Stanford University, 1999

• B.A.Sc. in Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, 1997

Awards

• 2002 Hugh Hildreth Skilling Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant

• 2006-2007 Image Communication Best Paper Award for Rate-distortion analysis for light field coding and streaming

Selected Publications

• Rate-Distortion Optimized Interactive Light Field Streaming
    Prashant Ramanathan, Mark Kalman, and Bernd Girod
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
    June 2007.

• Rate-Distortion Analysis for Light Field Coding and Streaming
    Prashant Ramanathan and Bernd Girod
    EURASIP Image Communications - Special Issue on Multi-view Image Processing
    June 2006.

• Random Access for Compressed Light Fields Using Multiple Representations
    Prashant Ramanathan and Bernd Girod
    Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop (MMSP-2004)
    Siena, Italy, September 2004.

• Geometry Refinement for Light Field Compression
    Prashant Ramanathan, Eckehard Steinbach, Peter Eisert and Bernd Girod
    Proc. Intl. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP-2002), pp. 225-228
  

• Full Publication List

Software

• Light Field Viewer