Dr.Sci. (Technology)
e-mail: Karen.egiazarian@tut.fi
Training
Karen O. Egiazarian (Eguiazarian) completed his education programme (M.Sc. in Mathematics) at Yerevan State University, Armenia, 1981; Moscow State University (PhD in Engineering), Russia, 1986; Tampere University of Technology (DTech), Finland, 1994.
Job Title
Professor, Signal Processing Laboratory, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
Scientific Activities
Fellow, IEEE; Member, SPIE.
Dr. Egiazarian has developed the image denoising system unparalleled to the present day; a descriptor that allows improving the quality of image segmentation.
Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Electronic Imaging (SPIE), memberships in editorial boards of IEEE Transactions of Image Processing; Research Letters in Signal Processing; Journal of Electronic Imaging; etc.
Opponent in PhD defenses in Helsinki University of Technology, Jyväskylä University, University of Oulu, University of Eastern Finland (Finland); University of California, UCSB, University of Texas, San Antonio (USA); Plymouth University (England); Roma Tre University, Rome, University of Trento (Italy); Galway University (Ireland); University of Geneva (Switzerland).
Honours & Awards
IS&T’s 2014 Service Award; Honorary Doctorate from Don State Technical University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia (2015); The Best Paper Award (together with Dabov K., Foi A., Katkovnik V.) of IEEE Signal Processing Society (2010); The Best Paper Prize (with Mehta, R., Yuan, J.) at the SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2011, San Francisco, January 2011; Best Presentation Award from IEEE chapter, Tufts University, Boston, 2006 for the paper “Shape-Adaptive DCT based image denoising”; The EuMA Radar Prize at European Radar Conference 2011, Manchester, UK, awarded for the work “Moving Target Classification in Ground Surveillance Radar ATR System by Using Novel Bicepstral-based Information Features” by Pavlo Molchanov, Jaakko Astola, Karen Egiazarian, and Alexander Totsky
Research Areas
Signal Processing, image processing, video processing
Publications
Over 700 publications including 4 patents
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