Academy Professor Moncef Gabbouj

Department of Signal Processing

Tampere University of Technology

 

 

 

 

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PROFESSOR MONCEF GABBOUJ
 

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D.:
 School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, 17 December 1989.
  • M.Sc.:
 School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, 21 December 1986.
  • B.Sc.:
 Department of Electrical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA, 11 May 1985.

TEACHING POSITIONS HELD

  • 01.01.09 - Present:

 

 Professor, Department of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Tampere,  Finland
  • 19.08.07 - 13.06.08:
 Visiting Professor, American University of Sharjah, UAE
  • 01.09.98 - Present: 
 Professor, Department of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology (TUT)
  • 1998 - 2007:

 

 Tutoring Professor, Nokia Leading Science Program, Nokia Mobile Phones, Leading Science Sessions 1-4  (1998-2002); Sessions 8 and 9 (2005-2007)
  • 01.11.95 - 31.08.00:
 Professor, Department of Information Technology, Pori, TUT, Pori, Finland
  • 01.04.94 - 10.09.95:
 Associate Professor, Department of Information Technology, TUT
  • 01.08.93 - 31.03.94:
 Acting Associate Professor, Department of Information Technology, TUT
  • 15.01.90 - 30.06.93:
 Lecturer, Department of Signal Processing, TUT, Tampere, Finland
  • 1988 - 1989:
 Teaching Assistant, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, USA.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND MANAGERIAL POSITIONS HELD

  • 01.01.02 - 31.07.07:   Head, Department of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

  • 01.01.06 - Present:     Vice-Director, Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in Signal Processing, TUT

  • 01.01.00 - 31.12.05:   Vice-Director, Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence, Signal Processing Algorithm Group

  • 2000 - 2005:               Co-Founder and Past CEO, SuviSoft Oy Ltd., Tampere, Finland

  • 01.05.91 - 31.07.07:   Director, International University Programs in Information Technology, TUT

  • 2000 - 2004:               Member, Council of the Department of Information Technology, and vice-member during 2005-2007

  • 01.01.1992 - Present:  Group Leader, Image and Video Analysis, Department of Signal Processing, TUT

RESEARCH POSITIONS HELD

  • 01.01.11 - 31.12.15:   Academy of Finland Professor

  • 09.08.11 - 23.12.11:   Visiting Professor, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, USA

  • 01.08.07 - 31.12.08:   Senior Research Fellow, Academy of Finland

  • 01.08.97 - 31.07.98:   Senior Research Fellow, Academy of Finland

  • 01.01.92 - 31.07.93:   Senior Research Scientist, Research Institute for Information Technology

  • 29.05.91 - 31.12.91:   Senior Researcher, Tampere University of Technology.

  • 01.02.90 - 31.12.90:   Researcher, Tampere University of Technology.

  • 1987 - 1989:              Research Assistant, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, USA.

POST-DOCTORAL STUDENTS (3)

  • Esin Guldogan, Hierarchical image retrieval, Tampere University of Technology

  • Kostadin Dabov, Video processing, Tampere University of Technology and Nokia Research Centre

  • Oguz Bici, Video coding, Tampere University of Technology and Nokia Research Centre

DOCTORAL THESES (COMPLETED) (29)

  • Jin Li, "Advances on Video Coding Algorithms for Next Generation Mobile Applications," Ph.D. Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, 5th August 2011. [PDF]

  • Igor Curcio, "QoS Aspects of Mobile Multimedia Applications," Ph.D. Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, 13th June 2011. [PDF] [The thesis was approved with HONOR]

  • Miikka Lundan, "Packet-switched streaming service in non-bitrate-guaranteed mobile networks," Ph.D. Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, 3rd June 2011. [PDF]

  • Iftikhar Ahmad, "Content-based Multimedia Retrieval for Mobile Devices," Ph.D. Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, 11th March 2011. [PDF]

  • Kemal Ugur, "Improved Prediction Methods for Low Complexity, High Quality Video Coding," Ph.D. Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, 8th November 2010. [PDF]

  • Ying Chen, "Advances on Coding and Transmission of Scalable Video and Multiview Video," Ph.D. Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, 11th February 2010. [PDF]

  • Dmytro Rusanovskyy, "Adaptive interpolation and transform based filtering for video coding," PhD Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, 4 December 2009 (co-supervisor).

  • Marko Helen, "Similarity Measures for Content-Based Audio Retrieval," PhD Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, 11 June 2009.

  • Miska Hannuksela, "Error-Resilient Communication Using the H.264/AVC Video Coding Standard," PhD Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, 23rd March 2009. [PDF] [The thesis was approved with HONOR]

  • Esin Guldogan, "Improving Content-Based Image Indexing and Retrieval Performance," PhD Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, 9th January 2009. [PDF]

  • Mehdi Rezaei, "Advances on Video Coding and Streaming," PhD Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, 24th May 2008. [PDF]

  • Juha Iso-Sipila "Design and Implementation of a Speaker-Independent Voice Dialing System: A Multi-lingual Approach," PhD Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, 18th April 2008. (Nokia, Tampere, Finland) [PDF]

  • Mari Partio, "Ordinal Methods for Similarity Evaluation Applied to Texture and Shape Retrieval," PhD Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, 17th October 2007.

  • Marko Moberg, "Contributions to Multilingual Low-Footprint TTS System for Hand-Held Devices," PhD Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, 17th August 2007 (Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland) [PDF]

  • Kimmo Parssinen, "Multilangual Text-to-Speech System for Mobile Devices: Development and Applications," Ph.D. Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, 27th April 2007. (Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland) [PDF]

  • Mejdi Trimeche, "Super-Resolution Image Reconstruction using Non-Linear Filtering Techniques," Ph.D. Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, 8th December 2006. (Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland) [PDF] [The Thesis received the EURASIP Best PhD Award for the year 2011 ]

  • Bogdan Cramariuc, "Image Analysis and Understanding Techniques with Application to Content Based Image Manipulation," Ph.D. Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, 2nd December 2005.

  • Fehmi Chebil, "Compressed Domain Image and Video Processing for Memory and Power Constrained Multimedia Applications," Ph.D. Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, 7th Nov.  2005. (Nokia Research Center, Dallas, USA)

  • Serkan Kiranyaz, "Advanced Techniques for Content-Based Management of Multimedia Databases," Ph.D. Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, 28th June 2005.

  • Sassan Iraji, "Novel Signal Processing Techniques for Advanced Wireless Communications," Ph.D. Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, May 2005. (Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland) [PDF]

  • Faouzi Alaya Cheikh, "MUVIS - A System for Content-Based Image Retrieval," Ph.D. Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, April 2004. [The thesis was approved with HONOR]

  • Lazhar Khriji, "Nonlinear Rational-Based Filters for Image Processing," Ph.D. Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, December 2002.

  • Haifeng Wang, "Advanced Multiuser Receiver for CDMA Communications," Ph.D. Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, October 2000. (Nokia Research Center, Oulu, Finland)

  • Marta Karczewicz, ?Modelling of Data Using Polynomial and Spline Functions and Its Application to Signal Processing,? Ph.D. Thesis, Tampere Univ. of Technology, October 1997.

  • Doina Petrescu, "Optimal Design and Image Processing Applications of Boolean, Stack and Morphological Filtering," Ph.D. Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, June 1997.

  • Alina Moga, "Parallel Watershed Algorithms for Image Segmentation," Ph.D. Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, February 1997.

  • Timo Viero, "Algorithms for Image Sequence Filtering, Coding and Image Segmentation," PhD Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, March 1996.

  • Ioan Tabus, "Training and Model Based Approaches for Optimal Stack and Boolean Filtering with Applications in Image Processing," Ph.D. Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, March 1995. [The thesis was approved with HONOR]

  • Ruikang Yang, "Weighted Median Filters, Analysis, Design and Applications," Ph.D. Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, June 1994 (Thesis co-supervisor)

 

Served as Custodian (presiding the thesis defence) for:

  • Alireza Akbardeh, "Signal Classification Using Novel Pattern Recognition Methods and Wavelet Transforms," Ph.D. Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, 9th March 2007.

 

ONGOING DOCTORAL RESEARCH GUIDANCE (28)

  • Payman Aflaki, Asymmetric stereoscopic video coding, Tampere University of Technology

  • Murat Birinci, Indexing and retrieval, Tampere University of Technology

  • Guanqun Cao, Image salient features, Tampere University of Technology

  • Olcay Guldogan, Distributed Mobile-MUVIS (Nokia Research Centre, Tampere, Finland)

  • Elina Helander, Voice conversion, Tampere University of Technology

  • Matti Hamalainen, Steerable microphone array systems (Nokia Research Centre, Tampere, Finland)

  • Jari Koivusaari, Multi-dimensional transform based video coding, Tampere University of Technology

  • Lukasz Kondrad, Video streaming over mobile networks (Nokia Research Centre)

  • Vinod Kumar, H.264/AVC video transmission over DVB-H, Tampere University of Technology (Nokia

  • Chenghao Liu, Video coding, Tampere University of Technology

  • Sujeet Mate, Movable and collaborative multimedia sessions in IP-based environment (Nokia Research Centre, Tampere, Finland)

  • Ville Myllyla Acoustic echo control and microphone array signal processing (Nokia Research Centre, Tampere, Finland)

  • Jarno Nikkanen, Color image processing for mobile camera phones (Nokia Technology Platform)

  • Jani Nurminen, Voice conversion (Nokia Research Centre)

  • Victor Popa, Data clustering and mode selection applied to voice conversion, Tampere University of Technology

  • Jenni Pulkkinen, Classification, relevance feedback and retrieval, Tampere University of Technology

  • Hanna Silen, Voice conversion, Tampere University of Technology

  • Dong Tian, Error resilient in H.264 video coding (Thomson, USA)

  • Stefan Uhlmann, Indexing and retrieval, Tampere University of Technology

  • Mauri Vaananen, Nokia, Tampere, Finland

  • Kun Yu, Image processing applications in mobile devices (Nokia Research Centre, Beijing, China)

  • Kongqiao Wang, Pattern recognition in mobile devices, (Nokia Research Centre, Beijing, China)

  • Cixun Zhang, High-quality digital video compression and communication, Tampere University of Technology

  • Honglei Zhang, Face detection and recognition, (Nokia Technology  Platforms, Tampere, Finland)

  • Kaveh Samiee, image segmentation

  • Alireza Aminlou, video compression

  • Maryam Homayouni, 3D video

  • Caglar Aytekin, Quantum image processing and analysis

 

MASTERS THESES (COMPLETED)

  • Guided 45 Masters of Science Theses during 1991-2010

HONOURS, AWARDS AND POSITIONS OF TRUST

  • IEEE Fellow, 2011

  • Recipient, Nokia Foundation Visiting Professor Grant, 2011-2012

  • Recipient, Best Paper Award, The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, ISM 2011

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  • Recipient, Medal of the Cinquantenaire de l'Universite Tunisienne, Tunisia, 2010

  • Honorary Guest Professor, Jilin University, Jilin, China, 2005-2009

  • Recipient, Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland, bestowed by the President of the Republic of Finland, December 2006. Citation: Professor Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland will be made Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland in recognition of his services to Finland on Finland's 89th Independence Day, 6th December 2006.

  • Recipient, Nokia Foundation Recognition Award, 2005. Citation: Award recognizes Gabbouj's progressive work in the development of an international educational network and graduate engineering studies in Finland

  • Recipient, Best Paper Award, Nordic Signal Processing Symposium, NORSIG 1994

  • Recipient, Myril B. Reed Best Paper Award, Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1989

  • Recipient, President's Honour Roll, Fall 1984, National Dean's List, 1984-1985 and Dean's Honour Roll, Spring 1982.

 

INVITED KEYNOTE SPEECHES

  •  International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications, IPTA 2010, 5-7 July 2010, Paris, France

  • International Workshop on Information Communication Technology, August 24-25, 2010, KMITL, Bangkok, Thailand

  • International Conference on Recent Advances in Communication Engineering, RACE 2008, 20-23 December 2008, Osmanian University, Hyderabad, India.

  • IEEE International Workshop on Recent Trends in Image and Video Processing, West Bengal University of Technology, 15th December 2008, Salt Lake, Kolkata, India.

  • International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, ISCIT 2008, October 21-23, 2008, Don Chang Palace, Vientiane, Lao PDR.

  • The Second Annual IEEE Benelux/DSP Valley Signal Processing Symposium, SPS-DARTS 2006, 28-29 March 2006, Antwerp, Belgium.

  • The Sixth International Conference - Exhibition on Digital Signal Processing and  its Applications, 31st March - 2nd April 2004, Moscow, Russia.

  • The Seventh International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications, ISSPA 2003, 1-4 July 2003, Paris, France.

  • International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, ISPACS 2003, 7-10 December 2003, Awaji Yumebutai International Conference Center, Awaji Island, Japan

 

GUEST EDITORSHIPS

  • Member, Editorial Board of Signal, Image and Video Processing, Springer

  • Member, Editorial Board of EURASIP Book Series on Signal Processing and Communications, member

  • Guest Editor, Springer Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, two special issues: Part I Video and Audio; vol. 30, no. 3, Sept. 2006, and Part II 2D and 3D Images, Interfaces, vol 31, no. 1, Oct. 2006.

  • Guest Editor, the European Journal Applied Signal Processing, special issues on Multimedia Interactive Services, Part I April 2002 and Part II June 2002

  • Guest Editor, the European journal Signal Processing, special issue on Nonlinear Digital Signal Processing, vol. 38, no. 3, August 1994.

 

OPPONENT AND PRE-EXAMINER FOR DOCTORAL THESES

  • Sarra Sakji-Nsibi, University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia, 2011 (Examiner)

  • Alexey Andriyasin, University of Joensuu, Finland, 2011 (to serve as Opponent)

  •  Zhimin Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2009 (Pre-examiner)

  • Hao Wang, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, 2007 (Pre-examiner)

  • Wided Souidene, Universite Paris 13, France, 2007 (Pre-examiner and Opponent)

  • Cedric De Rouver, UCL, Belgium, 2006 (Pre-examiner and Opponent)

  • Markus Koskela, HUT, Finland, 2003(Opponent)

  • Markku Hauta-Kasari, LTK, Finland, 1999 (Pre-examiner)

  • Etienne Decenciere, Ecole de Mine de Paris, France 1998 (Opponent)

  • Sami Valiviita, HUT, Finland, 1998 (Pre-examiner)

  • Taneli Harju, HUT, Finland, 1997 (Opponent)

  • Riitta Vaananen, HUT, Finland, 2003 (Pre-examiner)

  • Michael Ropert, Universite de Rennes I, France, 1995 (Opponent)

 

PROFESSORSHIP EVALUATION

  • Information Technology Professor, University of Oulu, 2009 (3 candidates)

  • Professor of Signal Processing University of Oulu, 2002 (one candidate: Janne Heikkila

  • Tenure track professorship position, Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Greece, 2007 (5 candidates)

IEEE ACTIVITIES

  • IEEE Fellow

  • IEEE Senior Member, January 1995, IEEE member for 23 years

  • Member, IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications, since 2009

  • Chairman, IEEE Finland Section, 2002-2003 and Executive Committee member, 2004-2005

  •  Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 1994-1998

  • Chairman, IEEE Signal Processing and Circuits and Systems, Finland Chapter, 2002-2004

  • Chairman, Technical Committee on DSP, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 1994- 1995, Chairman-Elect, 1993-1994, and Secretary, 1991-1992.

TEACHING SUBJECTS AND CURRICULA DEVELOPMENT

Freshman Level Courses

  • Introduction to Statistics

 

Bachelor and Masters Level Courses

  • Digital signal processing I

  • Digital signal processing II

  • Video signal processing

  • Signal processing project

  • Digital image processing

  • Nonlinear signal and image processing I

  • Digital audio

  •  Pattern recognition

  • Senior design project

 

Post graduate level courses

  • Personal Content Management

  • Advanced methods for mobile audio

  • Orientation to post graduate studies

  •  Nonlinear signal and image processing II and III

  • Business and work in information society (E-commerce, multimedia, embedded systems)

  • Indexing and retrieval (MPEG-7)

  • Video compression (MPEG-4, H.263, H.264)

  • Multimedia management and processing (MPEG-21)

  • Radar systems (levels 1 and 2)

  • Adaptive filtering

  • Graduate research seminar

 

Degree Programs and Curricula development

  • Contributed to the development of Masters and doctoral program curriculum at the Department of Signal Processing at Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland, 1990-1995 and 1998-2004.

  • Leading the development of the new curricula for the new BSc and MSc degree programs at TUT, 2004-2005 (according to the Bologna Convention of the European Union).

  • Founder and responsible for the International University Program curricula, 1991-2004 at the Department of Information Technology, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland.

  • Founded the Signal processing and telecommunications curricula at the Department of Information Technology, Pori, TUT, Pori, Finland, 1995-1997.

  • Contributed to the development of the electrical engineering program curriculum at Politehnica University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania (within the European Communities TEMPUS program)

 

EDUCATION ACTIVITIES

  • Co-founder and Director, International Masters Programs in Information Technology, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland, 1991-2007.

  • Industrial Training, Tutoring Professor, Leading Science Programs, Nokia Corporation, 8 years during 1998-2007.

  • Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Program of the Circuits and Systems Society, 2004-2005.

  • Chairman, New BSc-MSc Degree Programs Committee, Department of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology.

  • Member, AdHoc group, International Education at TUT, 2005-2006

  • Member, Structural Reform Committee, TUT, 2006-2007.

  • Partner, EU Tempus, Erasmus and Socrates Exchange Programs

  •  Lecturer,  Continuing Education, Edutech, TUT

EDUCATION PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS

  • EU Tempus, Erasmus and Socrates Exchange Programs, 1991-1995

  • International University Programs in Information Technology (http://www.cs.tut.fi/uniprogramme/ )

  • Leading Science Program, Nokia Mobile Phones, Finland, 1998-2002 and 2005-2007

  • Continuing Education, Edutech, TUT

EUROPEAN UNION ACTIVITIES

  • EU IST Network of Excellence, partner (SIMILAR, 3-D TV, 2004-2008; SCHEMA, 2002-2005)

  • EU COST 292 Co-founder and partner (2004-2007) and COST 211quat AG Chairman (1998-2003)

  • EU IST Proposal Evaluation/Hearing, Brussels, Belgium, expert (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007)

  • EU ESPRIT and HCM partner, 1991-1998 (NAT and NOBLESSE, 1991-1998; MAVI 1994-1997)

ADVISORY BOARDS AND CONFERENCES

  • Contribution to international workshops and conferences in various capacities, e.g. Chairman (CBMI 2005 and WIAMIS 2001), TP chairman (EUSIPCO 2000, NORSIG 1996, NSIP 1993), Publicity chair (ICASSP 2006, IEEE ICIP 2005, NSIP 1997 and 2001)

  • EURASIP Advisory Board, member; AdCom, elected member, European Union Liaison, 2000-2004

  • Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing Board, co-founder, chairman and vice-chair

 

RESEARCH PROJECTS (8 548 695 Euro)

Academy of Finland

  • Academy of Finland Professor, Project "Advanced signal processing methods for audio and visual media analysis, processing, communications and retrieval," 2011-2015 [704 800 Euro]

  • Academy of Finland funding for Academy Professor, 2011-2013 [750 000 Euro]

  • SPAG (Signal Processing Algorithm Group) Centre of Excellence in research funded by the Academy of Finland, TEKES and TUT, 2000-2005 and 2006-2011 [vice-director of the Centre] [1 700 000 Euro]

  • Ubiquitous Computing, funded by the Academy of Finland within MOTIVE Program, 2009-2011 [250 000 Euro]

  • Vartunut tutkija (Senior Research Fellow) Signal Processing Methods for Multimedia Search Engine, 2007-2008, [118 000Euro]

  • FiDiPro (invited Academy of Finland Professor Chair) funded by Academy of Finland and TUT 2007, [280000 Euro]

  • FHA Future Home Applications (2006-2007), [80 750 Euro],

  • MEDIA (Video Coding and Analysis) funded by the Academy of Finland [project leader], 2003-2005 [161900 Euro]

  • Technology Development Center of Finland, TEKES

  • MUVIS (Multimedia Image and Video Indexing and Retrieval) funded by TEKES, Nokia and Alma Media and HPY [project leader], 1998-1999 [130 000 Euro], Academy of Finland CoE since 2000.

  • SEPEMCO Search of Personal Media Content, funded by Nokia Research Centre and TEKES, 2005-2006 [360 000 Euro]

 

Industrial Projects

  • Advanced Video and Image Processing Algorithms, APIVA, funded by Nokia Reseach Center, 2011 [540 000 Euro], 2010 [290 000 Euro], 2009 [269000 Euro], 2008 [225 000 Euro]

  • Multimedia Processing and Communications, L4Mobile-FARMS, funded by Nokia Research Center, 2011 [317 000 Euro], 2010 [230 000 Euro], 2009 [205 000 EUR], 2008 [124 000 Euro]

  • Voice-UI, funded by Nokia Research Center, 2007-2008 [213 000 Euro]

  • DVB-H, funded by Nokia Research Center/TEKES, 2007 [22 000 Euro]

  • LIN-TP, funded by Nokia Technology Platforms, 2007 [60 000 Euro]

  • HQI High Quality Image Compression, funded by Nokia Research Centre (NRC), 2006 [70 000 Euro], 2007 [85 000 Euro]

  • ASR Automatic Speech Recognition, funded by Nokia Research Centre, 2004-2005 [43 700 Euro]

  • TTS Expressive and Emotional Text-to-Speech, funded by NRC, 2004-2005 [21 300 Euro]

  • HITA Human interface technologies and their applications, funded by NRC, 2004 [41 100 Euro]

  • Video Processing and Communications, L4Mobile, funded by Nokia Mobile Phones and NRC, 2001-2006 [537 500 Euro], 2007 [220 000 Euro]

  • L4H2-MBG Multimedia processing and communication, funded by Nokia MBG, 2006 [52 000 Euro]

  • L4H2-TP Multimedia communication, funded by Nokia MBG, 2006 [36 000 Euro]

  • RANES (Modelling and auralisation of electro-acoustical systems) NRC, 2002-2003 [56 600 Euro]

 

European Union

  • EU COST 292 (Semantic Multimodal Analysis of Digital Media), funded by EU COST program [co-founder and partner] since 2005 [a. 50 000 Euro]

  • EU NoE 3D TV a network of excellence funded by the EU, 2004-2008 (with K. Egiazarian)

  • EU SCHEMA (Content-Based Semantic Scene Analysis and Information Retrieval) EU Network of Excellence funded by the European Union, 2002-2005 [73 300 Euro]

  • EU NoE SIMILAR (Human-machine interfaces) a network of excellence funded by the EU, 2004-2008 [48500 Euro]

  • EU COST 211quat (Redundancy Reduction Techniques and Content Analysis for Multimedia Services) funded by EU COST program [chairman of the Technical Committee], 1998-2003

Other Projects

  • Tampere University of Technology, 2011 [150 000 Euro]

  • University Alliance project, STATCORE, 2010 [33 845 Euro]

REVIEWER FOR

  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Image Processing, Circuits and Systems II, and Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

  • IEEE Signal Processing Letters

  • EURASIP Journal of Signal Processing and Applied Signal Processing

  • IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing.

 

LANGUAGES

  • English (excellent written and communications skills)

  • Finnish

  • French and

  • Arabic

ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMITTEES

  • The Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineering (IEEE)

  • The European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP)

  • The Technical Committee on Digital Signal Processing of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

  • Information Technology Department Council at Tampere University of Technology

  • Board of Suvisoft Oy Ltd.

  • Program committees of many international conferences

  • Editorial Board of two international journals

  • EU program and proposals expert group

 

PUBLICATIONS

480+ papers were published in international conference proceedings, journals and edited books and book chapters.

The full list with links to available publications can be found here.

 

 

 

 

 

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last update: 2010/12/28