MONSON H. HAYES is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his B.A. degree in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, and his M.S.E.E. and Sc.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from M.I.T. His research interests are in digital signal processing with applications in image and video processing. He has contributed more than 100 articles to journals and conference proceedings, and i