Research Publications
The research Publications listed below (in archival journals, books or proceedings of conferences) are the products of Dr. Tzannes' life long researches on the subjects of his scientific expertise; Communication and Radar Systems, Information Theory, Signal/Image Processing, Probability and Statistics and Mathematical Linguistics.
Some of the researches (and thus the ensuing publications) were done in collaboration with his three sons; Michael (Ph.D, Tufts University), Marcos (M.E.E. UC-Berkeley) and Alexis (Ph.D, Northeastern), all of whom hold advanced degrees in Electrical Engineering with specilizations similar to his. Some were done with coleagues. The majority were done with his graduate students--candidates for Master's or Ph.D degrees.
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS IN JOURNALS OR BOOKS
N.S. Tzannes, "Joule and Wiedemann Effects The Simultaneous Generation of Longitudinal and Torsional Stress Pulses in Magnetostrictive Materials," IEEE Transactions on Sonics and Ultrasonics, SU 13, No. 2, July 1966.
N.S. Tzannes, "On the Natural and Forced Response of Linear Systems," IEEE Transactions on Education, No.1, March 1967.
N.S. Tzannes, "Polynomial Expansions of Random Functions," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol IT 13, No. 2, April 1987.
N.S. Tzannes and D. Fermental, "On Optimun A Priori Probability Distribution Assignments," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. IT 14, No. 6, Nov. 1968.
N.S. Tzannes, A.J. Sarantakis and E.H. Farr, "Entropy and Data Compression," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. IT 16, January 1970.
N.S. Tzannes, R.V. Spencer and A. Kaplan, "On Estimating the Entropy of Random Fields," Information and Control, Vol. 16, No. 1, March 1970.
E.A. Afendras and N.S. Tzannes, "More on Informational Entropy, Redundancy and Sound Change," Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 3, 1971.
N.S. Tzannes and J.P. Noonan, "The Mutual Information Principle and Some Applications," Information and Control, Vol. 22, February 1973.
E.A. Afendras, N.S. Tzannes and J. Trepanier, "Distance, Variation and Change in Phonology: Stochastic Aspects," Folia Linguistica V1 1 2, 1972.
N.S.Tzannes, "Information Theory and Management Decisions," Recent Progress in Cybernetics and Systems, Gordon and Breach Publishers, 1973.
J.P. Noonan, N.S. Tzannes and T. Costello, "On the Inverse Problem of Entropy Maximations," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, January 1976.
N.S. Tzannes, "The Rate Distortion Theory and Probability Models," Modern Trends in Cybernetics and Systems, Vol. 11,
Springer Verlag Publishing Company, 1977, pp. 515-524. Also in Kybernetes, Vol. 5, 1976.
N.S. Tzannes, "A Study of Time Shifted Signals and Their Expansions," Kybernetes Vol. 7, 1978.
T.G. Avgeris and N.S. Tzannes, "On Reconstituting a Process From Its Quantized Form in the Presence of Noice," Information Sciences Vol. 15, No. 2, July 1978.
N.S. Tzannes and T.G. Avgeris, "A New Approach to the Estimation of Continuous Spectra," Current Topics in Cybernetics and Systems Springer Verlag Publishing Co., 1978. Also Kybernetes, v.10, 1981.
T.G. Avgeris, E. Lithopoulos and N.S. Tzannes, "Application of the MIP to Spectral Density Estimation," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 26, No. 2, 1980.
N.S. Tzannes and T.G. Avgeris, "An Information Theory Approach to the Approximation of Functions," Advances in Communications, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Holland, 1980.
J. Cyranski and N.S. Tzannes, "Some Closed Form Solutions to the Mutual Information Principle," Kybernetes,Vol. 12, 1983.
D. Politis, M.A. Tzannes and N.S. Tzannes, "Mutual Information (MIP) Spectral Estimation," Methods of Applications of Measurement and Control, Acta Press Publishing Company, Canada, 1984.
M.A. Tzannes, D. Politis and N.S. Tzannes, "A General Method of Minimum Cross Entropy Spectral Estimation," IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. ASSP 33, No.3, June 1985.
N.A. Katsakos Mavromichalis, M.A. Tzannes and N.S. Tzannes, "Frequency Resolution: A Comparative Study of Four Entropy Methods," Digital Techniques in Communication and Control(book), Elsevier Science Publ., l985. Also in Kybernetes, Vol. l5, l986.
R.C. Papademetriou, T.J. Ketseoglu and N.S. Tzannes, "Image Restoration Using the Mutual Information Principle," Kybernetes, Vol.l6, No. 4, October l987.
N.S. Tzannes and Peter A. Jonnard, "Maximum Entropy Reconstruction of Moment Coded Images."Optical Engineering, Volume 26, No. 10, Oct. l987.
N. S. Tzannes, M. A. Tzannes and J. Bodenschatz, "Reconstruction of Transform Coded Images by Entropy Methods." Optical Engineering, Vol.28, No. 3, March l989.
T. Kasparis, N.S. Tzannes and Q. Chen, "Detail Preserving Conditional Median Filters," Journal of Electronic Imaging. Vol. 1, No. 4, October l992.
M.A. Bassiouni, N.S. Tzannes and M.C. Tzannes "High fidelity Integrated Lossless/Lossy Compression and Reconstruction of Images." Optical Engineering, Vol. 32 No. 8, August l993.
N. S. Tzannes, "Discrete Wavelet Multitone Modulation," section 7.4 of the book "ADSL, VDSL and Multicarrier Modulation," By John A. Bingham, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Jan. 2000.
RESEAERCH PUBLICATIONS IN PROCEEDINGS OF
CONFERENCES
N.S. Tzannes, "Information Theory and Meaning in Natural Languages," Proceedings of the 2nd. International Congress on Applied Linguistics, September, 1969, Cambridge, England.
E.A. Afendras and N.S. Tzannes, "Stochastic Models of Pattern Stability," Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applied Linguistics, September, 1969, Cambridge, England.
E.A.Afendras and N.S. Tzannes, "Stochastic Processes in Diachronic Linguistics," Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Systems Science, January, 1970, Honolulu, Hawaii.
N.S. Tzannes and E.A. Afendras, "A Sequential Model of Sound Pattern," Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Systems Science, January, 1971, Honolulu, Hawaii.
E.A. Afendras and N.S. Tzannes, "Language Convergence and Stochastic Processes," Proceedings of the 1970 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, June, 1970, Holland.
N.S. Tzannes and E.A. Afendras, "Systemic Distance as a Determinant of Interference," Proceedings of the 1970 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, June, 1970, Holland.
N.S. Tzannes, "On Expansions of Stationary Random Processes," Proceedings of the 5gh International Conference on System Science, January, 1972, Honolulyu, Hawaii.
J.P. Noonan and N.S. Tzannes, "More on the MIP for Prior Modeling," Proceedings of the 1974 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October, 1974, Dallas, Texas.
N.S. Tzannes, "On Information Theory Estimators," Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, October, 1984, Notre Dame, Indiana.
N.S. Tzannes and J.P. Noonan, "Channel Descriptions with Partial Information," Proceedings of the IEEE URSI Conference, April 9, 1968, Washington D.C.
K.E. Tiernan and N.S. Tzannes, "Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Phase Differentials Between Narrowband Processes," Proceedings of the SWIEEECO Conference, April 22-24, 1970, Dallas, Texas.
K.E. Tiernan and N.S. Tzannes, "DSSC Modulation with a Gaussian Random Process: Application to Correlators," Proceedings of the SWIEEECO Conference, April 22-24, 1970, Dallas, Texas.
N.S. Tzannes and J.P. Noonan, "A Theory of Prior Probabilities," Proceedings of the M.J. Kelly Communications Conference, October 5-7, 1970, Rolla, Missouri.
N.S. Tzannes and J.P. Noonan, "Detection of Signals in Noise Using the Theory of Prior Probabilities," Proceedings of the 1970 Canadian Conference on Communications, November 12-14, Montreal, Canada.
J.P. Noonan and N.S. Tzannes, "Communication Channel Synthesis with Incomplete Information," Proceedings of thr Sixth Annual Symposium on System Theory, LSU, February l974.
T.G. Avgeris, E. Lithopoulos and N.S. Tzannes, "Extension of the Maximum Engropy Spectral Estimation (MEM), Using the Mutual Information Principle (MIP)," International Conference on Measurement and Control (MECO) '78), June 26-29, 1978, Athens, Greece.
N.S. Tzannes and T.G. Avgeris, "A New Approach to the Estimation of Continuous Spectra," Proceedings of the 4th International Congress on Cybernetics and Systems, August, 1978, Amsterdam, Holland.
N.S. Tzannes and T.G. Avgeris, "An Information Theory Approach to the Approximation of Functions," Prgs of Intern. Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, (INFO II), Patras, Greece, August, 1979.
N.S. Tzannes and S. Politaki, "The Use of Information Theory Functionals for Data Smoothing," Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Mathematical Modeling, August 15-17, 1983, Zurich, Switzerland. Published by Pergamon Press.
M.A. Tzannes, D. Politis and N.S. Tzannes, "A General Method of Minimum Cross Entropy Spectral Estimation," Proceedings of the International Conference on Measurement and Control (MECO '83), August 27-31, 1983.
M.A. Tzannes, C. Moussas and N.S. Tzannes, "Multiple Spectral Estimation by Spectral Cross Entropy," Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, September 5-8, 1984, Florence, Italy.
R.C. Papademetriou, T.J. Ketseoglu and N.S. Tzannes, "Information Theoretic Image Restoration Problems," Proceedings of the International Digital Technology Conference (DIGITECH `84), July 9-12, Patras, Greece.
N.S. Tzannes, J. Thacker and M.A. Tzannes, "Entropy Preserving Block Truncation Coding." Proceedings of the SOUTHEASTCON '86, March 22-25, l986, Richmond, Virginia.
N. S. Tzannes and P. Jonnard, "Relative Entropy Reconstruction of Moment Coded Images." Proceedings of the SOUTHEASTCON '86, March 22-25, l986, Richmond, Virginia.
N.S. Tzannes and M.A. Tzannes, "Reconstruction of Transform Coded Data by Relative Entropy Minimization." Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, March 19-21, l986.
N.S. Tzannes and J. Bodenschatz, "Iterative Reconstruction of Transform Coded Images Using Relative Entropy," Proceedings of the SOUTHEASTCON '87, April 5-8, l987, Tampa, Florida.
N.S. Tzannes, J. Bodenschatz and M. A. Tzannes, "Image Reconstruction using Entropy, Relative Entropy and the Discrete Cosine Transform." Presented at the l987 Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America, Oct. 18-23, l987, Rochester, N.Y.
Y.A. Alsaka, N.S. Tzannes and B Marinelli, "An Efficient Algorithm for Implementing the Relative Entropy Method," Proceedings of the 1988 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, April 11-14, l988, New York, N.Y.
Y.A. Alsaka, N.S. Tzannes and D.M. Gregory, "Multisignal Spectral Estimation using an Iterative Relative Entropy Method," Proceedings of the SOUTHEASTCON '88, April 10-13, l988, Knoxville, Tennessee.
N.S. Tzannes, M.C. Tzannes and A.P. Tzannes, "Applications of Entropy Functionals in Image Coding," Proceedings of ComCon '88 International Conference on Advances In Communications and Control Systems, Oct. 19-22, l988, Baton Rouge, LA.
M. C. Tzannes, A.P. Tzannes and N.S. Tzannes, "Cascade Coding for Sub bit Image Compression." Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Image Processing Algorithms and Techniques, Febr. 12-14, l990, Santa Clara, California.
N. S. Tzannes, A. P. Tzannes and M.C. Tzannes, "Cascade Coding with Relative Entropy Decoding," Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems Engineering, July 18-20, l990, Las Vegas, Nevada.
A. P. Tzannes, M. A. Tzannes, M. C. Tzannes and N. S. Tzannes, "Cascade Coding with Error Constrained Relative Entropy Decoding," Proceedings of the l991 SPIE/SPSE Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology, Febr. 24-March 1, l991, San Jose, CA.
M. Bassiouni and N.S Tzannes, "Experiments on Improving the Compression of Special Data Types," Proceedings of the Data Compression Conference DCC'91, May 9-12, l991, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, California.
M. A. Bassiouni, A. P. Tzannes, M. C. Tzannes and N.S. Tzannes, "Image Compression Using Integrated Lossless/Lossy Methods." Proceedings of the l991 International Conference on ASSP, May 14-17, l991, Toronto, Canada.
T. Kasparis, N.S. Tzannes, Q. Chen, and M. Bassiouni, "Fractal based Multi feature Texture Description." Proceedings of the SPIE International Conference on Image Understanding for Aerospace Applications, June 10-14, l991, Munich, Germany.
T. Kasparis and N.S Tzannes, "Conditional Median Filtering for Selective Impulse Suppression." Procs of the 3rd International Conference on Advances in Communication and Control Systems, October 16-18, l991, Victoria, B.C., Canada.
M. A. Tzannes and N.S. Tzannes, "Recent Results in the Theory and Applications of Relative Entropy Minimizations." Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 92), September 13-16 l992, Toronto, Canada.
