Marco F. Duarte Address/E-mail  Program Affiliations  Courses  Education  Fields of Interest  Research Summary  Reports Publications  Files and Links  Personal

Ph.D. Student

Contact Information

2120 Duncan Hall
Rice University, MS-366
P.O. Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251-1892

Tel: 713-348-2600

Fax: 713-348-5685
E-mail: duarte at rice dot edu

Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Rice University.
Area: Digital Signal Processing.
Advisor: Richard Baraniuk.
Fourth Year.

Teaching and Course Assistant Courses

ECE 353: Introduction to Microprocessor Systems - 2003-2004, University of Wisconsin - Madison - Teaching Assistant.
ELEC 542: Digital Audio and Video Systems Design - 2005, Rice University - Course Assistant.
ELEC 301: Signals and Systems - 2005-2006, Rice University - Grader.

Education

B.S. in Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004.

Fields of Interest

Compressed Sensing
Pattern Classification
Collaborative Signal Processing
Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks

Research Summary

My general research interests are Pattern Recognition and Digital Signal Processing. I am also interested in general Computer Engineering topics.

My Master's research dealt with sensor networks and was part of the SensIT project in UW-Madison. Two of our goals are to develop algorithms for reliable fusion of data among sensors and for vehicle classification. We have developed algorithms for vehicle classification based on acoustic and seismic sensors, and have used the gathered data and results to develop fusion algorithms to increase the success rate for overall classification in the sensor network.

My current research deals with fast algorithms for reconstruction in the compressed sensing setting, as well as distributed architectures for compressed sensing. For more information on the topic, visit the Rice University Compressed Sensing Group Site. I am also involved in the very exciting Compressive Imaging project.

Collaborators

• Richard Baraniuk
• Dror Baron
• Petros Boufounos
• Volkan Cevher
• Mark Davenport
• Yu Hen Hu
• David Johnson
• Kevin Kelly
• Sami Kirolos
• Jason Laska
• Yehia Massoud
• T.S. Eugene Ng
• Tamer Ragheb
• Shriram Sarvotham
• J. Ryan Stinnett
• David Stork
• Ting Sun
• Dharmpal Takhal
• Joel Tropp
• Raymond Wagner
• Michael Wakin

Reports

ECE 736 Wireless Communication: Collaborative Signal Processing in Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks.
ELEC/COMP 520 Distributed Systems: Panda: An Implementation of Generative Communication on a Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlay - with Annie Christian, Seth Nielson, Andrea Pound and Dan Sandler.
ELEC/COMP 524 Mobile and Wireless Networks: Simulation of TCP for Orbiting Spacecraft Through the TDRS Satellite System - with Ken Fisher and Abdul Kabbani.
ELEC 537 Design and Control of Computer Networks: Analysis of Contending Flow Pairs in Wireless Networks - with Jingpu Shi.
ELEC 599 First Year Research Project: Fast Reconstruction in Compressed Sensing (Contact me if you are interested in this report).
ELEC 631 Advanced Digital Signal Processing: A Fixed Point Implementation of ICA and its Application in Surveillance Sensor Networks
(Matlab Script, Slides).

Publications

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Journal and magazine papers

1. Marco Duarte and Yu-Hen Hu, "Distance Based Decision Fusion in Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks", Telecommunication Systems, Vol. 26 No. 2-4, pp. 339-350, 2004.
2. Marco Duarte and Yu-Hen Hu, "Vehicle Classification in Distributed Sensor Networks", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 64 No. 7, pp. 826-838, 2004.
3. Dror Baron, Michael B. Wakin, Marco F. Duarte, Shriram Sarvotham, and Richard G. Baraniuk, "Distributed Compressed Sensing," submitted for publication.
4. David G. Stork and Marco F. Duarte, "Computer Vision, image analysis and master art, Part III", IEEE Multimedia, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 14-18, 2007.
5. Marco F. Duarte, Mark A. Davenport, Dharmpal Takhar, Jason N. Laska, Ting Sun, Kevin F. Kelly and Richard G. Baraniuk, "Single Pixel Imaging via Compressive Sampling", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 83-91, March 2008. (Erratum to published version)

Conference papers

1. Marco F. Duarte and Yu-Hen Hu, "Distance Based Decision Fusion in a Distributed Wireless Sensor Network," The 2nd International Workshop on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '03), April 22-23, 2003, Palo Alto, CA. pp. 392-404. (Slides)
2. Marco F. Duarte and Yu-Hen Hu, "Optimal Decision Fusion With Applications to Target Detection in Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks", Proceedings Of The 2004 IEEE International Conference On Multimedia And Expo, June 27-30, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan. pp. 1803-1806.
3. Marco F. Duarte and Yu-Hen Hu, "Optimal Decision Fusion With Applications to Target Detection in Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks", Proceedings of The IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, September 29 - October 1, 2004, Siena, Italy. pp. 319 - 322.
4. Dror Baron, Marco F. Duarte, Shriram Sarvotham, Michael B. Wakin and Richard G. Baraniuk, "An Information Theoretic Approach to Distributed Compressed Sensing", Proceedings of the 43rd Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2005, Monticello, IL.
5. Marco F. Duarte, Shriram Sarvotham, Dror Baron, Michael B. Wakin and Richard G. Baraniuk, "Distributed Compressed Sensing of Jointly Sparse Signals", Proceedings of the 39th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computation, 2005, Pacific Grove, CA. pp. 1537-1541. (Slides)
6. Marco F. Duarte, Michael B. Wakin and Richard G. Baraniuk, "Fast Reconstruction of Piecewise Smooth Signals from Random Projections", Online Proceedings of the Workshop on Signal Processing with Adaptative Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS), 2005, Rennes, France.
7. Marco F. Duarte, Shriram Sarvotham, Michael B. Wakin, Dror Baron and Richard G. Baraniuk, "Joint Sparsity Models for Distributed Compressed Sensing", Online Proceedings of the Workshop on Signal Processing with Adaptative Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS), 2005, Rennes, France.
8. Michael B. Wakin, Shriram Sarvotham, Marco F. Duarte, Dror Baron and Richard G. Baraniuk, "Recovery of Jointly Sparse Signals from Few Random Projections", Proceedings of the Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2005, Vancouver, Canada. pp. 1435-1442.
9. Dharmpal Takhar, Jason N. Laska, Michael B. Wakin, Marco F. Duarte, Dror Baron, Shriram Sarvotham, Kevin F. Kelly and Richard G. Baraniuk, "A New Compressive Imaging Camera Architecture using Optical-Domain Compression", Proceedings of Computational Imaging IV at SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2006, San Jose, CA. pp. 43-52. (Slides)
10. Marco F. Duarte, Michael B. Wakin, Dror Baron and Richard G. Baraniuk, "Universal Distributed Sensing via Random Projections", Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2006, Nashville, TN. pp. 177-185. (Slides)
11. Joel A. Tropp, Michael B. Wakin, Marco F. Duarte, Dror Baron and Richard G. Baranuik, "Random Filters for Compressive Sampling and Reconstruction", Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2006, Toulouse, France, pp. III-872-875.
12. Marco F. Duarte, Mark A. Davenport, Michael B. Wakin and Richard G. Baraniuk, "Sparse Signal Detection from Incoherent Projections", Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2006, Toulouse, France, pp. III-305-308.
13. Michael B. Wakin, Jason N. Laska, Marco F. Duarte, Dror Baron, Shriram Sarvotham, Dharmpal Takhar, Kevin F. Kelly and Richard G. Baraniuk, "Compressive Imaging for Video Representation and Coding", Proceedings of the Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), 2006, Beijing, China.
14. Michael B. Wakin, Jason N. Laska, Marco F. Duarte, Dror Baron, Shriram Sarvotham, Dharmpal Takhar, Kevin F. Kelly and Richard G. Baraniuk, "An Architecture for Compressive Imaging", Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2006, Atlanta, GA, pp. 1273-1276. (Slides)
15. Sami Kirolos, Jason Laska, Michael Wakin, Marco Duarte, Dror Baron, Tamer Ragheb, Yehia Massoud and Richard Baraniuk, "Analog-to-Information Conversion via Random Demodulation", Proceedings of the IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Workshop (DCAS), 2006, Dallas, TX.
16. Sami Kirolos, Tamer Ragheb, Jason Laska, Marco F. Duarte, Yehia Massoud and Richard G. Baraniuk, "Practical Issues in Implementing Analog-to-Information Converters", Proceedings of the International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications, 2006, Cairo, Egypt, pp. 141-146.
17. David G. Stork and Marco F. Duarte, "Fidelity analysis of mechanically aided copying/enlarging of Jan van Eyck's `Portrait of Niccolò Albergati'", Proceedings of Vision Geometry XV at SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2007, San Jose, CA.
18. Mark A. Davenport, Marco F. Duarte, Michael B. Wakin, Jason N. Laska, Dharmpal Takhar, Kevin F. Kelly and Richard G. Baraniuk, "The Smashed Filter for Compressive Classification and Target Recognition", Proceedings of Computational Imaging V at SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2007, San Jose, CA.
19. Jason N. Laska, Sami Kirolos, Marco F. Duarte, Tamer Ragheb, Richard G. Baraniuk and Yehia Massoud, "Theory and Implementation of an Analog-to-Information Converter using Random Demodulation", Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2007, New Orleans, LA, pp. 1959-1962.
20. Petros Boufounos, Marco F. Duarte and Richard G. Baraniuk, "Sparse Signal Reconstruction from Noisy Compressive Measurements Using Cross Validation", Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP), 2007, Madison, WI, pp. 299-303. (Poster)
21. Marco F. Duarte, Mark A. Davenport, Michael B. Wakin, Jason N. Laska, Dharmpal Takhar, Kevin F. Kelly and Richard G. Baraniuk, "Multiscale Random Projections for Compressive Classification", Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2007, San Antonio, TX, pp. VI-161-164. (Slides)
22. Marco F. Duarte, Michael B. Wakin and Richard G. Baraniuk, "Wavelet-Domain Compressive Signal Reconstruction Using a Hidden Markov Tree Model", Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2008, Las Vegas, NV. pp. 5137-5140. (Slides)
23. Marco F. Duarte, Shriram Sarvotham, Dror Baron, Michael B. Wakin and Richard G. Baraniuk, "Performace Limits for Jointly Sparse Signals via Graphical Models", Proceedings of the Sensor, Signal and Information Processing (SenSIP) Workshop, 2008, Sedona, AZ. (Poster)
24. Volkan Cevher, Marco F. Duarte and Richard G. Baraniuk, "Distributed Target Localization via Spatial Sparsity", to appear in Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2008, Laussane, Switzerland.

Technical Reports

1. Shriram Sarvotham, Michael B. Wakin, Dror Baron, Marco F. Duarte and Richard G. Baraniuk, "Analysis of the DCS one-stage greedy algorithm for common sparse supports", Rice University Technical Report TREE-0503, October 2005.
2. Marco F. Duarte, Jason N. Laska and Richard G. Baraniuk, "Bounds for Signal to Noise Ratio in Analog to Information Converter Systems", Rice University Technical Report TREE-0608, October 2006.
3. Raymond Wagner, J. Ryan Stinnett, Marco F. Duarte, Richard G. Baraniuk, David B. Johnson and T. S. Eugene Ng. "A Network Application Programming Interface for Data Processing in Sensor Networks", Rice University Technical Report TREE-0705, April 2007.

Files and Links of Interest

My resume
My Curriculum Vitae
Compressed Sensing Group

Personal

My homepage: Link to my personal homepage (in Spanish)

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