Dr Marcel Adrian Ambroze
Lecturer in Digital Communication Engineering
Brief biographical information
marcel.ambroze@plymouth.ac.ukResearch interests
- Error correction coding and modulation
- Coding Theory (code design, theoretical limits)
- Information Theory for Coding and Data Compression
- Signal Processing (particularly for communications, image and video processing)
- Satellite and wireless communications as applications of signal processing, coding and modulation design
- Communications channels, practical code design and theoretical limits (currently: AWGN, Erasure, BSC and Side-Information AWGN channels, also satellite multiple access)
- Watermarking as hidden communications with side information at the transmitter
- Signal processing for watermarking
- Human Visual System (HVS) models
- Wavelets
Education/qualifications
- PhD in Digital Communications (2000)
- BEng (Hons) Communication Engineering (First Class Hons) (1996)
Professional memberships
- MIEEE (Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Enginners)
Journal papers
Signals of opportunity geolocation methods for urban and indoor environments | |
Coding for shared satellite channel communications | |
Novel Soft-Feedback Equalization Method for Multilevel Magnetic Recording Magnetics | |
Extending the Dorsch decoder towards achieving maximum-likelihood decoding for linear codes | |
Analysis of the distribution of the number of erasures correctable by a binary linear code and the link to low-weight codewords | |
Idempotent, Mattson-Solomon polynomials and binary LDPC codes | |
New Linear Codes Derived from Binary Cyclic Codes of Length 151 | |
Cyclotomic idempotent-based binary cyclic codes | |
DWT-based high-capacity blind video watermarking, invariant to geometrical attacks | |
Dependence of dfree in MPCCC Systems | |
Bounds for finite block-length codes | |
Search for good b/(b + 1) high rate recursive systematic convolutional component codes | |
Turbo Code Protection of a Video Watermarking Channel | |
Practical Aspects of Iterative Decoding | |
Turbo Code Tree and Code Performance | |
Iterative MAP Decoding for Serial Concatenated Convolutional Codes |
16 Journal papers
Conference papers
A Review on Power Consumption Reduction Techniques on OFDM | |
A secure sharing design for multi-tag RFID authentication protocol | |
Achieving Improved Network Subscriber Geo-Location | |
Decoding low-density parity-check codes with error-floor free over the AWGN channel | |
Extended optimum decoding for LDPC codes based on exhaustive tree search algorithm | |
A II-HARQ scheme for BEC models with ML decoding of Turbo Codes | |
Comparison of decoding turbo Gallager codes in hybrid decoding arrangements with different iterative decoders over the erasure channel | |
Biorthogonal matrix dirty paper coding for information hiding in still images | |
Analysis of the Distribution of the Number of Correctable Erasures for Turbo Codes with DRP Interleavers | |
Advances in Iterative Decoding and Maximum Likelihood Decoding for the Packet Network with Comparisons to Fountain Codes over the Erasure Channel | |
Some Results on the Weight Distributions of the Binary Double-Circulant Codes Based on Primes | |
On the Efficient Codewords Counting Algorithm and the Weight Distributions of the Binary Quadratic Double-Circulant Codes | |
Comparison of Concatenated Reed-Solomon Coding with Hard-decision to Soft-decision LDPC Coding for the Rayleigh Fading Channel | |
Comparisons of Orthogonalisation and Writing-On-Dirty-Paper Schemes for High Capacity Watermarking | |
Analysis on Decoding Algorithms Based on Sectionalised Trellises of Block Codes and Their Dual | |
Erasure correcting codes, network congestion, multicast and broadcast | |
A finite-field transform domain construction of binary low-density parity-check codes | |
Approaching the ML performance with iterative decoding | |
Enhancement of turbo codes using cyclic redundancy check with interleaver optimisation | |
Magnitude modulation for small satellite Earth terminals using QPSK and OQPSK | |
Combating geometrical attacks in a DWT based blind video watermarking system | |
Adding robustness to geometrical attacks to a wavelet based blind video watermarking system | |
Power and bandwidth efficient modulation and coding for small satellite communication terminals |
23 Conference papers
Patents granted
A system for the correction of missing or deleted symbols | |
Improved error correction decoder | |
Cyclic redundancy check for error correcting codes with minimal code rate loss | |
Improved Iterative Decoder for LDPC Codes with Performance Approximating to a Maximum Likelihood Decoder |
4 Patents granted
Internal publications
Graphical Interface for Watermarking | |
Application of LDPC Codes to Networks | |
Study of DCT Watermarking Methods | |
On Trellis Structure of Error Correction Codes | |
Graphical Interface for Watermarking | |
Turbo Codes: Interleavers Types | |
Digital Watermarking for Copyright Protection | |
Application of LDPC Codes to Networks | |
Application of LDPC Codes on Networks | |
On Trellis Structure of Error Correction Coding | |
On Trellis Structure of Error Correction Coding | |
Watermarking using Side Information | |
Combined Data Compression and Error Correction | |
Combined Data Compression and Error Correction | |
Watermarking using Side Information | |
Analysis of Structure and Performance of Turbo Codes over Additive White Gaussian Noise Channels: Practical Design and Implementation | |
Digital Watermarking with Side Information |
17 Internal publications
60 publication(s) - all categories.
Editorships / Refereeing for journals
- IEEE Transactions on Communications
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
- IEEE Signal Processing Letters
- IET Proceedings Vision and Image Processing
- IET Proceedings Communications
- Electronics Letters
- EPSRC
Current MPhil/PhD Supervisions
- Mr Ayad Hazim Al-Adhami, Privacy and Authentication in RFID based Inventory Systems
- Ms Reem Alkanhel, Designing a usable security framework for IoT
Completed MPhil/PhD Supervisions
- Dr Jing Cai, A Study of Erasure Correcting Codes (2010)
- Dr Ismail Isnin, A Study on Wireless Communication Error Performance and Path Loss Prediction (2011)
- Dr Thomas Mansfield , Data Communications for Navigation (2017)
Invited Presentations, Lectures, etc.
- Invited lectures at University of Canterbury, New Zealand, Oct 2009
- Invited Talk to AHA Comtech, US on ``Recent advances on error correction coding at Plymouth', May 2009
- Invited Lecture to UC Davis, US on ``LDPC Tree Search', May 2009
- Invited talk to the IEEE New Zealand section on ``Recent developments in coding for satellite and space communications', April 2005.
- Invited talk at Technical University of Ulm, Germany, on ``Error correction coding research at Plymouth', February 2004.
- Invited talk at University College Dublin on ``Error Correction Coding for Spread Spectrum Video Watermarking', May 2003.
- Invited talk at The Technical University of Timisoara, Romania, on ``Watermarking Uncompressed Video: an Overview", November 2000.