UCSB Engineering

Jerry Gibson

Professor and Department Chair

Electrical & Computer Engineering
Media Arts and Technology

Jerry Gibson

Contacts

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

tel: (805) 893-6187
fax: (805) 893-2930
gibson@ece.ucsb.edu

Personal web site

Research Description

Data, speech, image, and video compression, multimedia over networks, wireless communications, information theory, and digital signal processing.

Research Groups

Biography

Gibson currently serves as Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Professor of Media Arts & Technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, from 1997-2002, and from 1987-1997, he held the J. W. Runyon, Jr. Professorship in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is co-author of the books Digital Compression for Multimedia (Morgan-Kaufmann, 1998) and Introduction to Nonparametric Detection with Applications (Academic Press, 1975 and IEEE Press, 1995) and author of the textbook, Principles of Digital and Analog Communications (Prentice-Hall, second ed., 1993). He is Editor-in-Chief of The Mobile Communications Handbook (CRC Press, 2nd ed., 1999), Editor-in-Chief of The Communications Handbook (CRC Press, 2nd ed., 2002), and Editor of the book, Multimedia Communications: Directions and Innovations (Academic Press, 2000).


Awards/Honors

  • Co-recipient, IEEE Signal Processing Society Paper Award, 1993
  • Fellow, IEEE, 1992
  • The Fredrick Terman Award, American Society for Engineering Education, 1992
  • NSF Young Investigator, 1974

Selected Publications

  • Video Capacity of WLANs with a Multiuser Perceptual Quality Constraint, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, _2008, J. Hu, S. Choudhury, and J. D. Gibson
  • Refined Error Concealment for Multiple State Video Coding over Ad Hoc Networks, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Oct. 26-29, 2008, Y. Liao and J. D. Gibson
  • On Strategies for Source Information Transmission over MIMO Systems, IEEE Global Communications Conference, Nov. 30-Dec. 4, 2008, M. Zoffoli, J. D. Gibson, and M. Chiani
  • Throughput Optimization for Wireless LANs in the Presence of Packet Error Rate Constraints, IEEE Communications Letters, Jan. 2008, S. Choudhury and J. D. Gibson
  • Multiple Descriptions and Path Diversity for Voice Communications over Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2007, J. Balam and J. D. Gibson
  • Packet Loss Concealment for G.722 using Side Information with application to Voice over WLANs, Journal of Multimedia, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2007, 66-76, N. Shetty and J. D. Gibson
  • Payload Length and Rate Adaptation for Multimedia Communications in Wireless LANs, IEEE J. Selected Areas in Communications, (Special issue on Cross-Layer Optimized Wireless Multimedia Communications), 2007, S. Choudhury and J. D. Gibson
  • SNR Scalable Speech Coding, IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2006, 545-557, H. Dong and J.D. Gibson
  • Speech Coding Methods, Standards, and Applications, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 4, 2005., 3049, J. D. Gibson
  • Allowing Bit Errors in Speech over Wireless LANs, Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, 28, 2005, 1643-1657, I. Chakeres, H. Dong, E. Belding-Royer, A. Gersho, and J. D. Gibson