School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mahmoud Reza Hashemi

School of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Assistant Professor

Email: hashemi [AT] comnete.com

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Research Interests

Ubiquitous Multimedia Computing
Multimedia Processing
Digital Video Processing
Very Low Bitrate Image and Video Coding
Mobile Video Communication
IP Core Design

Selected Publications

1) M.N. Bojnordi, O. Fatemi, M.R. Hashemi, "An Efficient Deblocking Filter with Self-Transposing Memory Architecture for H.264/AVC", IEEE International on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 14-19 May 2006, Toulouse, France.

2) M. R. Hashemi, E. Soroush, "A Secure m-Payment Protocol for Mobile Devices", 19th Annual Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, 7-10 May 2006, Ottawa, Canada.

3) H. Roudaki, M.R. Hashemi, O. Fatemi, "A Frame Layer Bit Allocation Method for H.264 Based on Frame Complexity", 19th Annual Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, 7-10 May 2006, Ottawa, Canada.

4) M.N. Bojnordi, M.R. Hashemi, O. Fatemi, "A Fast Two Dimensional Deblocking Filter for H.264/AVC", 19th Annual Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, 7-10 May 2006, Ottawa, Canada.

5) M. Semsarzadeh, O. Fatemi, M.R. Hashemi, "An Optimized Mode Decision Algorithm for Low Bit-rate Applications in H.264/AVC", Global Signal Processing Conference TV to Mobile, 29-30 March 2006, Amsterdam, Netherland.

6) M.N. Bojnordi,, O. Fatemi, M. Semsarzadeh, M.R. Hashemi, "Block Merging Motion Estimation for Fast Mode Decision in H.264/AVC Video Coding", Global Signal Processing Conference TV to Mobile, 29-30 March 2006, Amsterdam, Netherland.

7) A. Aminlou, F. Zargari, O. Fatemi, M.R. Hashemi, "A Pre-compression Bit Allocation Algorithm for the JPEG2000 Standard Based on Exponential Models", Global Signal Processing Conference GSPx 2005, 24-27 Oct. 2005, Santa Clara California.