Biomedical Engineering Faculty Sos S. Agaian, Ph.D. Professor Department of Electrical Engineering Educational Background: Doctor of Engineering Sciences, US Equivalent-Doctor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Russian diploma: Scientific Computing, Modeling and Architecture Arising from Communications and Signal/Image Processing). Computer Center Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Moscow), 1985. Areas of Research Interest: Fundamentals: Signal/Image Processing and Systems (Special interest in the development of scientific computing and architectures applicable to the theory and practice of engineering science (emphasizing the usage of complex digital signal/image processing and intelligent systems technologies to solve the engineering challenges currently facing the military and industrial information processing centers) Selected Publications: Books: H.Sarukhanyan, S.Agaian, K.Egiazarian and J.Astolla. "Hadamard Transforms". TICSP Series No. 23, Finland, April 2004, 274p. A.M. Grigoryan, and S.S.Agaian, "Multidimensional Discrete Unitary Transformations: Representation, Partitioning, and Algorithms", Marcel Dekker INC, New York, 2003 521 pages. S.Agaian, J. Astola and K.Egiazarian, "Binary Polynomial Transforms and Nonlinear Digital Filters," Marcel Dekker INC, New York, 1995, 308 pages. S.Agaian, J.Astola and K.Egiazarian. "Polynomial Transforms and Applications (Combinatorics, Digital Logic, Nonlinear Signal Processing)", Tampere University, 1993, 468 pages. S.Agaian, "Hadamard Matrices and Their Applications", Lecture Notes of Mathematics. No 1168, Springer-Verlag (Berlin, New York, Tokyo), 1985, 227 pages. Book Chapters: S.Agaian, and B.Rodriguez, "Basic Steganalysis Techniques for the Digital Media Forensics Examiner", Digital Crime and Forensic Science in Cyberspace, 45 pages 2006 K.Egiazarian, J.Astola, S.Agaian; 'Binary Polynomial Transforms and Logical Correlation', book, Nonlinear Filters for Image Processing, SPIE/IEEE Series on Imaging Science & Engineering, IEEE Press, New York, pp. 299-355, 1999, pp. 299-355, 1999. K. Egiazarian, J.Astola, S.Agaian, R.Oktem; 'Applications of Binary Polynomial Transforms" , book Nonlinear Filters for Image Processing, SPIE/IEEE Series on Imaging Science & Engineering, IEEE Press, New York, pp. 299-355, 1999, pp. 355- 419, 1999. Papers: Sos S. Agaian, Ethan E. Danahy, and Karen A. Panetta, "Logical System Representation of Images and Removal of Impulse Noise," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans, Submitted: July 2006. S. Agaian, B.Silver, Karen A. Panetta, "Transform Coefficient Histogram Based Image Enhancement Algorithms using Contrast Entropy", IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, 2006 Accepted for Publication (Invated Paper) S.Agaian, "Steganography & Steganalysis", "An Overview of Research & Challenges", Network Security and Intrusion Detection, NATO Proceedings, 30 pages, 2006 Cai H, Agaian S, Sanchez M, Wang Y, "Extracting Temporal Specific Features From Microarray Expressional Profiles". WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics and Computers in Biology and Biomedicine. Issue 2, Vol. 3, February 2006, pp. 104-110. P. Sagiraju, S. Agaian, D. Akopian, "A Reduced Complexity Acquisition of GPS Signals for Software Embedded Applications" , IEE Proc. Radar, Sonar & Navigation vol. 153, February 2006, pp. 69-78 Hakob Sarukhanyan, S.Agaian, J.Astola, K.Egiazarian, "Decomposition of Binary Matrices and Fast Hadamard Transforms," Circuits Systems and Signal Processing, vol. 24, No. 4, 2005, pp. 385-401. S.Agaian, I. Gurevich, A. Metliski, and R. C. Cherukuri, "Two New M-sequence Based Data Hiding Algorithms" , Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Vol. 15, N 2, 2005, pp. 399-483 Sos S. Agaian and Ravindranath Cherukuri, "Run Length Based Steganography for Binary Images," Pattern Recognitions and Machine Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Publisher: Springer-Verlag GmbH, N 3776, ISBN: 3-540-30506-8, 2005, pp. 481 - 485 (Invited Paper) A.Grigoyan, and S. Agaian, "Image Enhancement," Advances in Imaging and Electron Physic, Academic Press. May 2004, pp. 165-243. S. Agaian, K. Tourshan, J. Noonan, "Generalized Parametric Slant_Hadamard Transforms," Signal Processing , 84, pp.1299-1307, 2004. S.Agaian, H.Sarukhanyan, and J. Astola, "Skew Williamson-Hadamard Transforms," Multiple Valued Logic and Soft Computing Journal, Old City Publishing, Inc. 2004, 15p. P. Dolan; S. Agaian, and J. Noonan, "An Examination of Decomposition Sparsity," Journal of Signal Processing, pp. 2004. (Invited Paper) B. Rodriguez, S. Agaian and J.Collins, "An Improved Raw Quick Pairs," DFRWS 2003, URL: http://www.dfrws.org/ S. Agaian, K. Tourshan, and J. P. Noonan, "Parameterization of Slant-Haar Transforms," IEE Proceeding-Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Vol, 150. No5, pp. 306-312, October 2003. S. Agaian, K. Tourshan, and J. Noonan, "Partially Signal Dependent Slant Transforms for Multispectral Classification," Journal of Integrated-Computer Aided Engineering (ICAE), vol. 10, no. 1, January 2003. Contact Information: College of Engineering, Room BSE 1.540 University of Texas at San Antonio Phone: 210-458-5939 Fax: 210-458-5589 Sos.Agaian@utsa.edu Return to faculty page   Return to top of page