Dr. Thyagarajan is an IEEE Senior Member and involved in research and development activities.

Dr. Thyag has published more than 30 papers in professional journals and conference proceedings.  He holds and/or has pending numerous U.S. patents in video compression, low contrast underwater target detection, EO system, and IED detection using multi-spectral IR imaging.

His current research interests are:

• Digital Signal Processing, Image processing, Video
• Video Compression, Detection,
• Identification/classification, Electro-optics, RF,Communications, and Statistical simulation
• Teaching, Analysis and Research antenna systems

Sample List of Publications:
K.S. Thyagarajan, “Digital Image Processing with Application to Digital Cinema”, Elsevier, Inc., 2007.
K.S. Thyagarajan, David Klien and Arjun Jain, “An EO Surveillance System for Harbor Security”, SPIE Conf., San Diego, August, 2007
K.S. Thyagarajan, et al, “Maximum Likelihood Approach to Image Texture and Acoustic Signal Classification”, IEE. VISP, February 1999

Sample List of Patents:
U.S. Patent No. 6,996,248. Apparatus and Method for Watermarking a Digital Image
U.S. Patent No. 6,870,963. Configurable Pattern Optimizer
U.S. Patent No. 6,650,784. Lossless Interframe Encoding using Golob-Rice
U.S. Patent No. 6,600,836. Quality-Based Image Compression