Jan Biemond

J. Biemond was born in De Kaag, The Netherlands. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, in 1973 and 1982, respectively. Currently, he is a Professor in the Information and Communication Theory Group and Head of the Department of Mediamatics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science at Delft University of Technology. His research interests include image and video processing (restoration, compression, content-based retrieval, motion estimation) with applications in digital TV, 3D TV, HDTV, multimedia, digital libraries, scan-rate conversion, and computer vision. He has published extensively in these fields and supervised more than 25 Ph.D. theses covering these fields. He was a Visiting Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, and at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga, and recipient of the Dutch Telecom Award “Vederprijs” for his contributions in the area of digital image processing, in particular in image restoration and subband coding. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He served as the General Chairman of the 1997 Visual Communication and Image Processing Conference (VCIP-97), San Jose, Calif, and as General Cochair of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME-2005) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Biography Updated on 19 May 2005

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