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Aaron Kiely
Aaron.B.Kiely @ jpl.nasa.gov
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mail Stop 238-420
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109-8099

Since 1993, Aaron has worked in the Information Processing Group of the Communications Architectures and Research Section at JPL, where he conducts research in data compression and error-correcting codes. Aaron led the development of the ICER image compression algorithm being used by the Mars Exploration Rovers, and he has also provided data compression consulting for several other deep space missions and instruments.  He was a co-investigator on a project to develop more effective methods of compressing stereo image pairs on future Mars rovers. Aaron is the chair of the Multispectral and Hyperspectral Data Compression working group of the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS).

Aaron has served on the faculty of Caltech, where he has periodically taught graduate-level courses on data compression and error-correcting codes. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has served as a committee member for the IEEE Data Compression Conference.  Aaron has been awarded a NASA Space Act Board Award and sixteen NASA Tech Briefs for innovations in data compression and error-correcting codes. In June 2005 he was awarded the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for leading the development and implementation of the image compression system used by the Mars Exploration Rover missions. He was an interviewee in NASA's 1998 astronaut selection. Aaron's Erdos number is two.

Current Projects

Hyperspectral Image Compression
Compression of Stereo Image Pairs for Future Mars Rovers
Progressive Wavelet Image Compression (ICER)
New Entropy Coding Techniques
Data Compression Testbed (JPL-internal only)

Education

B.S., Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 1989
M.S.E., Electrical Engineering: Systems, University of Michigan, 1990
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering: Systems, University of Michigan, 1993
M.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California, 1999

Publications

NASA Tech Briefs (www.nasatech.com)

  • A. Kiely, "Algorithm for Lossless Compression of Calibrated Hyperspectral Imagery," NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-46547, to appear.
  • A. Kiely, "Lossless Compression of Data Into Fixed-Length Packets," NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-45942, to appear.
  • N. Aranki, J. Namkung, C. Villalpando, A. Kiely, M. Klimesh, H. Xie, "Hyperspectral Data Compression on Reconfigurable Platforms." NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-42834, to appear.
  • A. Kiely, H. Xie, M. Klimesh, N. Aranki, "Context Modeler for Wavelet Compression of Spectral Images," NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-43239, to appear.
  • A. Kiely, M. Klimesh, H. Xie, N. Aranki, "Compressing Hyperspectral Data Using 3D Wavelet Transforms," NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-42835, to appear.
  • M. Klimesh, A. Kiely, H. Xie, N. Aranki, "Improving 3D Wavelet-Based Compression of Hyperspectral Images," NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-41381, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 7a–8a, March, 2009.
  • A. Kiely, "Image Compression Algorithm Altered to Improve Stereo Ranging," NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-44647, vol. 32, no. 3, p. 80, March 2008.
  • A. Kiely, "Simpler Adaptive Selection of Golomb Power-of-Two Codes," NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-41336, vol. 31, no. 11, p. 71, Nov. 2007.
  • A. Kiely, M. Klimesh, "Compressing Image Data While Limiting the Effects of Data Loss," Software Tech Briefs, NPO-40982, p. 25, September, 2006.
  • M. Klimesh, A. Kiely, "Pre-Processor for Compression of Multispectral Image Data," Software Tech Briefs, NPO-40835, pp. 24–25, September, 2006.
  • A. Kiely, M. Klimesh, "Improved Compression of Wavelet-Transformed Images," NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-40490, vol. 29, no. 11, pp. 69-70, November 2005.
  • M. Klimesh, A. Kiely, "Partitioning a Gridded Rectangle into Smaller Rectangles," NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-30479, July 2004.
  • A. Kiely, M. Klimesh, "A Bit-Wise Adaptable Entropy Coding Technique," NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-21101, vol. 26, no. 7, pp. 62–63, July, 2002.
  • A. Kiely, R. McEliece, L. Ekroot, W. Lin, S. Dolinar, "Characterizing Trellis Decoders for Linear Block Codes," NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-19601, vol. 20, no. 12, pp. 137–138, December, 1996.
  • A. Kiely, "Bit-Wise Arithmetic Coding for Compression of Data," NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-19397, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 82–83, June 1996.
  • K.-M. Cheung, A. Kiely, "An Efficient Variable-Length Data-Compression Scheme," NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-19576, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 80–81, January 1996.

IPN Progress Reports (ipnpr.jpl.nasa.gov)

  • A. Kiely, "Lossless Compression of Seismic Data into Fixed-Length Packets," IPN Progress Report, vol. 42-173, pp. 1–13, May 15, 2008. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, A. Ansar, A. Castano, M. Klimesh, J. Maki, "Lossy Image Compression and Stereo Ranging Quality from Mars Rovers," IPN Progress Report, vol. 42-168, pp. 1–27, February 15, 2007. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, M. Klimesh, H. Xie, N. Aranki, "ICER-3D: A Progressive Wavelet-Based Compressor for Hyperspectral Images," IPN Progress Report, vol. 42-164, pp. 1–21, February 15, 2006. [PDF]
  • M. Klimesh, A. Kiely, H. Xie, N. Aranki, "Spectral Ringing Artifacts in Hyperspectral Image Data Compression," IPN Progress Report, vol. 42-160, pp. 1–17, February 15, 2005. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, "Selecting the Golomb Parameter in Rice Coding," IPN Progress Report, vol. 42-159, pp. 1–8, November 15, 2004. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, M. Klimesh, "Preliminary Image Compression Results from the Mars Exploration Rovers," IPN Progress Report, vol. 42-156, February 15, 2004, pp. 1–8. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, M. Klimesh, "The ICER Progressive Wavelet Image Compressor," IPN Progress Report 42-155, pp. 1–46, July–September, 2003. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, M. Klimesh, "Generalized Golomb Codes and Adaptive Coding of Wavelet-Transformed Image Subbands," IPN Progress Report 42-154, pp. 1–14, April–June, 2003. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, M. Klimesh, "A New Entropy Coding Technique for Data Compression," IPN Progress Report 42-146, pp. 1–48, April–June, 2001. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, M. Klimesh, "Memory-Efficient Recursive Interleaved Entropy Coding," IPN Progress Report 42-146, pp. 1–14, April–June, 2001. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, S. Dolinar, M. Klimesh, A. Matache, "Synchronization Markers for Error Containment in Compressed Data," TMO Progress Report 42-136, pp. 1–40, October–December, 1998. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, "Progressive Transmission and Compression of Images,"  TDA Progress Report 42-124, pp. 88–103, October–December, 1995. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, S. Dolinar, R. McEliece, L. Ekroot, W. Lin, "Minimal Trellises for Linear Block Codes and Their Duals," TDA Progress Report 42-121, pp. 148–158, January–March, 1995. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, S. Dolinar, R. McEliece, L. Ekroot, W. Lin, "Trellis Complexity Bounds for Decoding Linear Block Codes," TDA Progress Report 42-121, pp. 159–172, January–March, 1995. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, F. Pollara, "A Seismic Data Compression System Using Subband Coding,"  TDA Progress Report 42-121, pp. 242–251, January–March, 1995. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, "Bit-Wise Arithmetic Coding for Data Compression," TDA Progress Report 42-117, pp. 145–160, January–March, 1994. [PDF]

Other Publications (NOTE: some links below are JPL-internal only)

  • Aaron B. Kiely and Matthew A. Klimesh, "Exploiting Calibration-Induced Artifacts in Lossless Compression of Hyperspectral Imagery," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 47, no. 8, pp. 2672–2678, Aug. 2009. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, M. Xu, W.-Z. Song, "Linear Predictive Compression on Seismic Sensor Networks," submitted to IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2009, Galveston, Texas March 9-13, 2009.
  • M. Klimesh, A. Kiely, H. Xie, N. Aranki, "Spectral Ringing Artifacts in Hyperspectral Image Data Compression," in Hyperspectral Data Compression, G. Motta, F. Rizzo, and J. Storer, editors, Springer, 2006. [PDF]
  • P.-S. Yeh, P. Armbruster, A. Kiely, B. Masschelein, G. Moury, C. Schaefer, C. Thiebaut, "The New CCSDS Image Compression Recommendation," Proc. 2005 IEEE Aerospace Conference, pp. 1–8, Big Sky, MT, March 5–12, 2005. [PDF]
  • J. Maki, et al., "The Mars Exploration Rover Engineering Cameras," Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets, vol. 108, no. E12, 8071, December 2003. [PDF]
  • S. Dolinar et al., "Region of Interest Data Compression with Prioritized Buffer Management (III)," Proceedings of NASA Earth Science Technology Conference 2003, College Park, MD, June 24–26, 2003. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, M. Klimesh, J. Maki, "ICER on Mars: Wavelet-Based Image Compression for the Mars Exploration Rovers," IND Technology and Science News, Issue 15, pp. 15–19, June, 2002. [PDF]
  • S. Dolinar et al., "Region of Interest Data Compression with Prioritized Buffer Management (II)," Proceedings of NASA Earth Science Technology Conference 2002, Pasadena, CA, June 11–13, 2002. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, M. Klimesh, "An Adaptable Recursive Binary Entropy Coding Technique" (Invited Paper), Proc. SPIE, vol. 4736, pp. 151–165, Orlando, FL, April, 2002. [PDF]
  • S. Dolinar et al., "Region of Interest Data Compression with Prioritized Buffer Management," Proceedings of NASA Earth Science Technology Conference 2001, College Park, MD, August 28–30, 2001. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, M. Klimesh, "A Novel Bit-Wise Adaptable Entropy Coding Technique," Proc. 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 335, Washington, D.C., June 24–29, 2001. [PDF]
  • S. Dolinar, D. Divsalar, A. Kiely, F. Pollara, "Performance-Complexity Tradeoffs for Turbo and Turbo-like Codes," Proc. 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 101, Wahington, D.C., June 24–29, 2001. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, M. Klimesh, "An Adaptable Binary Entropy Coder," Proc. 2001 IEEE Data Compression Conference, pp. 391–400, Snowbird, Utah, March 27–29, 2001. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, S. Dolinar, M. Klimesh, A. Matache, "Error Containment in Compressed Data Using Sync Markers," Proc. 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 428, Sorrento, Italy, June 2000. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, R. Manduchi, M. Klimesh, "Maximizing Science Return: Data Compression and Onboard Science Processing," TMOD Technology and Science Program News, Issue 12, pp. 12–15, June 2000. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, M. Klimesh, "Data Compression for Deep Space Missions," International Symposium on Deep Space Communications and Navigation, Pasadena, California, September 21–23, 1999. [abstract]
  • W. Bhorsi, et al., "The Exploration of Mars: Crew Surface Activities," Proc. Second Annual HEDS-UP Forum, May 6–7,1999, LPI Contribution No. 979, pp.181–200, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas.
  • W. Lin, R. McEliece, A. Kiely, "The Trellis Evolution Algorithm for Nonlinear Block Codes," Proc. 1998 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 254, Cambridge, MA, August 16–21, 1998. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, A. Matache, "Improving Image Access Using Progressive Data Compression," NASA Science Information Systems Newsletter, Issue 46, June, 1998.
  • J. Coffey, A. Kiely, "The Capacity of Coded Systems," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 113–127, January, 1997. [abstract, PDF]
  • A. Kiely, S. Dolinar, R. McEliece, L. Ekroot, W. Lin, "Trellis Decoding Complexity of Linear Block Codes," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,vol.  42, no. 6, pp. 1687–1697, November, 1996. [abstract, PDF]
  • A. Kiely, R. Renner, editors,  Proceedings of the 1996 Combined Industry, Space and Earth Science Data Compression Workshop, JPL Publication 96–11, April 1996.
  • A. Kiely, "Bit-Wise Arithmetic Coding for Data Compression," Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 394, Whistler, British Columbia, September 17–22, 1995. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, F. Pollara, "Subband Coding Methods for Seismic Data Compression," Proc. 1995 Space and Earth Science Data Compression Workshop, pp. 25–34, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 27, 1995. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, F. Pollara, "Subband Coding Methods for Seismic Data Compression," Proc. 1995 IEEE Data Compression Conference, p. 447, Snowbird, Utah, March 28–30, 1995. [PDF]
  • K.-M. Cheung, A. Kiely, "An Efficient Variable Length Coding Scheme for an IID Source," Proc. 1995 IEEE Data Compression Conference, pp. 182–191, Snowbird, Utah, March 28–30, 1995. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, J. Coffey, M. Bell, "Optimal Information Bit Decoding of Linear Block Codes," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 130–140, January, 1995. [abstract, PDF]
  • S. Dolinar, L. Ekroot, A. Kiely, W. Lin, and R.J. McEliece, "The Permutation Trellis Complexity of Linear Block Codes," Proc. 32nd Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, pp. 60–74, Monticello, IL, September 1994.
  • A. Kiely, J. Coffey, "On the Capacity of a Cascade of Channels," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 1310–1321, July, 1993. [abstract, PDF]
  • A. Kiely, J. Coffey, "Communicating Over a Channel Constrained to a Fixed Code," Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 158, San Antonio, Texas, January 1993. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, T. Lettieri, T. Vorburger, "A Model of an Optical Roughness-Measuring Instrument," International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 33–35, February–April, 1992.
  • A. Kiely, J. Coffey, "Properties of a Cascade of Binary Channels," Proc. 29th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, pp. 790–797, Allerton, Illinois, October 1991. [PDF]
  • A. Kiely, J. Coffey, M. Bell, "On the Capacity of a Cascade of Channels," Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 60, Budapest, Hungary, June 1991. [PDF]
  • T. Lettieri, A. Kiely, L. Cao, T. Vorburger, "Comparison of Optical and Mechanical Measurements of Surface Finish," Proc. ASPE 1990 Annual Conference, pp. 110–113, Rochester, ASPE: Raleigh, N.C, 1990.
  • O. Manuar, A. Kiely, T. Lettieri, "An Efficient Algorithm for 3D Computer Holography," Proc. SPSE 42nd Annual Conference, pp. 40–43, SPSE: Springfield VA, Boston, 1989.
  • O. Manuar, A. Kiely, T. Lettieri, "Computer Generated Holography Using a Personal Computer," Proc. SPSE 41st Annual Conference, pp. 211–214, SPSE: Springfield, VA, 1988.
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