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Comment: Hi, thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. I'm not sure why this content can't just be included at USC Viterbi School of Engineering.Regarding the article, to determine whether this meets notability, can you please provide in a comment the three sources you best demonstrate notability and list whether they are primary, reliable, in-depth, and independent of the subject? You can make a table or just list out the sources. Please see WP:Three sources for more details. I noticed you added some sources in the diff. We can then use this to determine how to proceed. Thanks! Caleb Stanford (talk) 04:25, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
- Comment: Primary sources do not establish notability per WP:ORG. DoubleGrazing (talk) 05:36, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
The USC Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI) is a research institute within the USC Viterbi School of Engineering focused on signal and image processing.
History and Research
[edit]SIPI was established in 1972 (initially as the USC Image Processing Institute, or IPI) by Professors William K. Pratt and Harry C. Andrews with support from ARPA (contract No. F08606-72-C-0008.[1]). At the time of its founding, SIPI/IPI was among the first university groups in the world dedicated to image processing research[2][3]. In addition to performing fundamental early research that helped lay the foundation for the JPEG and MPEG image and video compression standards[4], it was also a key member of the ARPANET (the progenitor for the Internet) where it provided image processing hardware and software services for other members of the network[1][5].
In the early 1970s, SIPI/IPI research focused on the basic theory of image processing with applications to image compression and image transmission/communication (including much of the early work on transform coding), image restoration and enhancement (including topics such as denoising, super-resolution, and color enhancement), image analysis, and display[1]. Over the years, SIPI's scope expanded beyond just image processing to involve a broader range of signal processing applications, including audio signal processing, speech processing, video processing, and the processing of data from a variety of sensors, imaging systems, and other information sources[2][3][6]
In 1977, SIPI released the first version of the USC-SIPI image database[7][8]. The database provides a large collection of standard test images that were scanned and digitized using SIPI's image acquisition hardware. Many of these images have been influential in image processing research[2][3][4][9], including the widely-used Mandrill/Baboon, Peppers, and Lenna test images.
People
[edit]Past and present SIPI faculty include[10] William K. Pratt (founding director), Harry C. Andrews, Irving S. Reed, Alexander A. Sawchuk, Anil K. Jain, Richard P. Kruger, Ali Habibi, Lloyd R. Welch, Ernest L. Hall, Werner Frei, Ronald S. Hershel, Jerry M. Mendel, S. Y. Kung, Armand R. Tanguay, Olivier Faugeras, Rama Chellappa, Lloyd J. Griffiths, Keith Jenkins, Richard M. Leahy, Bart Kosko, C.-C. Jay Kuo, C. L. Max Nikias, Antonio Ortega, Chris Kyriakakis, Shri S. Narayanan, Krishna S. Nayak, Sanjit K. Mitra, Justin P. Haldar (current SIPI director), Panayiotis G. Georgiou, Maryam Shanechi, and Mahdi Soltanolkotabi.
Notable SIPI alumni include Professors Bhaskar Rao[11], Georgios B. Giannakis, and James Duncan[12], and former NASA/JPL executive Firouz Naderi.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Pratt, William K. (April 1972). "Image Processing Research Semiannual Technical Report: 3 August 1971 through 29 February 1972". Defense Technical Information Center. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved 7 July 2025.
- ^ a b c USC Viterbi (2012-12-07). 40 Years at SIPI: The Past, Present and Beyond. Retrieved 2025-07-07 – via Vimeo.
- ^ a b c USC Emeriti Center (2022-09-15). USC Living History Project - Dr. Alexander A. Sawchuk (2022). Retrieved 2025-07-07 – via YouTube.
- ^ a b Hutchison, Jamie (2001). "Culture, Communication, and an Information Age Madonna" (PDF). IEEE Professional Communication Society Newsletter. 45 (3): 1, 5–7. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 April 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
- ^ Pratt, W. K.; Kruger, R. P. (October 1972). "IMAGE PROCESSING OVER THE ARPA COMPUTER NETWORK". University of Arizona Libraries Campus Repository. hdl:10150/605530. Retrieved 7 July 2025.
- ^ "USC Signal and Image Processing Institute". Retrieved 7 July 2025.
- ^ Schmidt, Ray. (October 1976). "The USC - Image Processing Institute Data Base". Defense Technical Information Center. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved 7 July 2025.
- ^ "The USC-SIPI Image Database". Retrieved 7 July 2025.
- ^ Salomon, David (2007). "Ch. 4.7 Test Images". Data Compression: The Complete Reference (4th ed.). London: Springer.
- ^ "SIPI Early History". Retrieved 7 July 2025.
- ^ "UCSD Faculty Profiles: Bhaskar Rao". Retrieved 7 July 2025.
- ^ "Yale School of Medicine Profiles: James Duncan, PhD". Retrieved 7 July 2025.
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