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Thesis is based on the following papers

1. Shang Xue anf Bengt Oelmann, "Unary Prefixed Huffman Coding for a Group of Quantized Generalized Gaussian Sources," accepted for publication (with revision) in IEEE Trans. on Communications, 2005. (pdf)
2. Shang Xue and Bengt Oelmann, "Unary-Prefixed Encoding of the Lengths of Consecutive Zeros in a Bit Vector," IEE Electronics Letters, vol.41, no.6, pp.346-347, 2005.(pdf)
3. Shang Xue and Bengt Oelmann, "Hybrid Golomb Codes for a Group of Quantized GG Sources,"  IEE Proceedings -- Vision, Image and Signal Processing, vol. 150, no. 4, pp. 256-260, August 2003. (pdf)

1. Peter Mårtensson, Jens Persson, Shang Xue, and Bengt Oelmann, "Efficient Decoding of Variable Length Encoded Image Data on the Nios II Soft-Core Processor," International Workshop on Applied Reconfigurable Computing, Algarve, Portugal, February 22, 2005 (pdf).
2. Shang Xue and Bengt Oelmann, "Efficient VLSI Implementation of a VLC Decoder for Golomb-Rice Code using Alternating Coding," ",  IEEE Norchip´03, Riga, Latvia, Nov 10-11, pp. 64-67, 2003.
3. Shang Xue and Bengt Oelmann, "Parallel Variable-Length Decoder Architecture for Alternated Coded GR-Codes",  IEEE Norchip´03, Riga, Latvia, Nov 10-11, pp. 179-182, 2003. (pdf)
4. Shang Xue and Bengt Oelmann, "Error Resilient coding of DCT coefficients using alternating coding of UVLC," Norsig, Bergen, Norway, 2-4 October, 2003. (pdf)
5. Shang Xue and Bengt Oelmann, "A Coding Method for UVLC Targeting Efficient Decoder Architecture," in the Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, September 18-20, 2003, Rome.
6. Shang Xue and Bengt Oelmann, "Alternating Coding for Universal Variable Length Code," in the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, September 14-17, 2003, Barcelona. (pdf)
7. Shang Xue and Bengt Oelmann, "Efficient VLSI Implementation of a VLC Decoder for Universal Variable Length Code using Alternating Coding," in the Proceedings of  IEEE Annual Symposium on VLSI, Tampa, Florida, USA, 20-21 February, 2003. (pdf)