Welcome to my homepage! I am Doru Cristian BALCAN.   Currently, I am a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department, at Carnegie Mellon University.   My Ph.D. advisor is Michael S. Lewicki, and I am a member of the Laboratory for Computational Perception and Statistical Learning.   My main research interests involve designing and studying efficient and robust adaptive representations of signals (in particular, of images). For more details, please visit my research page.
Contact Research Publications Presentations Teaching Links CV		Selected Publications D. C. Balcan, M. S. Lewicki. Point Coding: Sparse Image Representation with Adaptive Shiftable-Kernel Dictionaries. In SPARS 2009.[pdf] D. C. Balcan, M. S. Lewicki. Adaptive coding of images via Multiresolution ICA. In IEEE ICASSP, Taipei, Taiwan, 2009.[pdf] D. C. Balcan, A. Sandryhaila, J. Gross, and M. Püschel. Alternatives to the Discrete Fourier Transform. In IEEE ICASSP, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2008.[pdf] E. Doi, D. C. Balcan, and M. S. Lewicki. Robust coding over noisy overcomplete channels, IEEE Trans. Image Proc., vol. 2, no. 16, Feb. 2007, pp. 442-452.[pdf] A preliminary version appeared in NIPS, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2005.