Tamás Szirányi

Name: Prof.Dr. Tamás SZIRÁNYI

Nationality: Hungarian

Home address: H-1147 Budapest, Jávorka Á. utca 20. (mfsz.3), Hungary

Phone: (36)(1) 2522574

Present Positions:

Scientific Adviser with the Analogical and Neural Computing Laboratory in the Computer and Automation Inst. of Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Address: H-1111 Budapest, Kende u. 13-17, Hungary

E-mail:NOSPAM.sziranyi@sztaki.hu,Phone: (36)(1) 279 6106,Fax: (36)(1) 209 5264

Full Professor with the Image Processing and Neurocomputing Department of the Veszprém University, Veszprém, head of Image Processing laboratory

Associate Editor of IEEE Tr. Image Processing

Tamás Szirányi received the Diploma and the Dr.Techn. degrees in electronics technology from the Technical University of Budapest in 1980 and 1983, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electronics and computer engineering in 1991, and the Doctor of Sciences degree in image processing in 2001 from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is addressed full-professor position in 2001 at Veszprém University.

Until 1991, he was a Research Fellow and Project Manager of Optoelectronics Development at the VIDEOTON Development Institute, Budapest. Then his work involved designing of optical data storage, laser printer and document scanning devices, also applications of laser systems. He led a research department and organized several projects. At the same time, he was a lecturer in electronics and computer technology at the Technical University of Budapest through several years.

He is currently a scientific advisor at the Computer and Automation Research Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and he is a full professor at the Image Processing and Neurocomputing Department of the Veszprem University.

His research activities include

· Image analysis,

· Pattern recognition,

· Intelligent image sensor systems,

· Texture and motion segmentation,

· Surveillance systems for panoramic and multiple camera systems,

· Measuring and testing the image quality,

· Scale-space methods,

· Digital film restoration,

· Markov Random Fields and stochastic optimization,

· Image rendering and coding,

· Subpixel measurement,

· Information theory of image analysis,

· Image and video compression,

· Pattern and texture analysis with cellular nonlinear networks.

He also developed systems including optoelectronic devices, analog/digital hardware, DSPs and Cellular nonlinear networks.

He is a project leader in 2 national R&D projects: Digital Restoration of Film Archives (Digitális Mozgókép-Helyreállító Rendszer Filmarchivumok Számára) and Multi-camera surveillance systems (Érzékelő számítógépek és távjelenlét).

He has published more than 70 scientific papers (including 21 in SCI journals), and known distinct references to his publications are more than 70.

He is the founder and past president (1997-2002) of the Hungarian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (KÉPAF).

He was the co-chair of an international workshop FSPIPA. He was honored by SzTAKI’s scientific award twice (1997 and 2003) and by the Master Professor award in 2001.

Publication-list, Abstracts, Demos

Visited to INRIA (Sophia Antipolis, France: Dr. J. Zerubia, 3m in 2001), Universität Leipzig (Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik: prof. D. Saupe, one month in 2000), Universität Freiburg (Inst. für Informatik, 1997), Ecoles Polytechniques Fédérales de Lausanne (Signal Processing Laboratory, Prof. M. Kunt, 1997)

Family: Krisztina, wife is a piano teacher; children: Barbara (1987), Levente (1988), Marcell (1991)

Hobbies: Music (flute), Mountaineering 1997, 2002, Skiing, Wandering in Nature Reserves, Ski, Bike, Rowing