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About the Authors

Mohammed E. Al-Mualla received the B. Eng. (Honors) degree in communi-
cations from Etisalat College of Engineering, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
(U.A.E.), in 1995, and the M.Sc. degree in communications and signal pro-
cessing from the University of Bristol, U.K., in 1997. In 2000, he received the
Ph.D. degree from the University of Bristol with a thesis titled “Video Cod-
ing for Mobile Communications: A Motion-Based Approach.” Dr. Al-Mualla
is currently an Assistant Professor at Etisalat College of Engineering. His re-
search is focused on mobile video communications, with a particular emphasis
on the problems of higher coding e2ciency, reduced computational complex-
ity, and improved error resilience.
C. Nishan Canagarajah received the B.A. (Honors) degree and the Ph.D. de-
gree in digital signal processing techniques for speech enhancement, both from
the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K. He is currently a reader in
signal processing at the University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K. He is also a coed-
itor of the book Insights into Mobile Multimedia Communications in the
Signal Processing and Its Applications series from Academic Press. His re-
search interests include image and video coding, nonlinear 6ltering techniques,
and the application of signal processing to audio and medical electronics.
Dr. Canagarajah is a committee member of the IEE Professional Group E5,
and an Associate Editor of the IEE Electronics and Communication Journal.

David R. Bull is currently a professor of signal processing at the University
of Bristol, Bristol, U.K., where he is the head of the Electrical and Electron-
ics Engineering Department. He also leads the Image Communications Group
in the Center for Communications Research, University of Bristol. Professor
Bull has worked widely in the 6elds of 1- and 2-D signal processing. He
has published over 150 papers and is a coeditor of the book Insights into
Mobile Multimedia Communications in the Signal Processing and Its Appli-
cations series from Academic Press. Previously, he was an electronic systems
engineer at Rolls Royce and a lecturer at the University of Wales, Cardi;,
U.K. His recent research has focused on the problems of image and video
communications, in particular, error-resilient source coding, linear and non-
linear 6lterbanks, scalable methods, content-based coding, and architectural

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