Tamás Szirányi

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 and in 2004 at Péter Pázmány Catholic 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.
His research activities include:

· Image analysis,

· Pattern recognition,

· Intelligent networked sensor systems,

· Remote Sensing,

· Texture and motion segmentation,

· Surveillance systems for panoramic and multiple camera systems,

· Deconvolution,

· Measuring and testing the image quality,

· Scale-space methods,

· Digital film restoration,

· Biometrics in identification, Human-Computer Interaction,

· Markov Random Fields and stochastic optimization,

· Image rendering and coding,

· Subpixel measurement,

· Information theory of image analysis,

· Pattern and texture analysis with special hardware,

· He also developed systems including optoelectronic devices, analog and digital hardware.

Presently he is project leader in two national projects of Hungarian Scientific Research Fund: “Structural information in the space of sensor networks” (#76159) and “Coherent attributes in the interpretation and perception of the visual world” (#80352). Presently he is the national leader of EU FP7 project JUMAS and EDA project MEDUSA.

He has published more than 130 scientific papers (including more than 40 in SCI journals), and known distinct references to his publications are more than 600. He is the founder and past president (1997-2002) of the Hungarian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (KÉPAF), and he was on the Governing Board of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). He was a member of the EU Network of Excellence MUSCLE (Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning).He was the co-chair of the international workshop FSPIPA in 1999 and conferences of KEPAF in 1997, 1999 and 2009. He was an invited plenary speaker of MRCS 2006. He was honored by the Széchenyi professorship 2000-2003, by SzTAKI’s scientific award 5 times, by the Master Professor award in 2001 and by the ProScientia award at Pannon University in 2011.

Visited to

· University of Auckland (Prof. Georgy Gimel'farb, 2010),

· University Konstanz (Prof. Dietmar Saupe, 2009),

· University Bordeaux (Prof. Jenny Benois-Pineau, 2008),

· INRIA (Sophia Antipolis, France: Dr. Josiane Zerubia, 3m in 2000, 2007, 2010),

· Universitat Leipzig, Fakultat fur Mathematik und Informatik, (Prof. D. Saupe, one month in 1999),

· Universität Freiburg (Inst. für Informatik, 1997),

· Ecoles Polytechniques Fédérales de Lausanne (Signal Processing Laboratory, 1997),

· Politecnico di Milano (4m in 1987),

· Research Center "E. Piaggio" (Pisa, Prof. Paolo Dario, 1987).

My PhD students
(Name, Title of Thesis, University, Year of Defense)

	*Name*	*Title of Thesis / progress*	*University*	*Year of Defense*
1	Czúni, László	New parallel image segmentation methods	Veszprém University	2001
2	Kopilovic, Iván	Progressiveness and Preprocessing in Image Compression	Veszprém Uni, Konstanz Uni (D)	2004
3	Havasi, László	Determination of geometrical properties of dynamic scenes	Pázmány Péter Catholic Univ.	2006
4	Szlávik, Zoltán	Video Registration	Pázmány Péter Catholic Univ.	2006
5	Kovács, Levente	Methods for two dimensional stroke based painterly rendering	Pannon University, Veszprém	2006
6	Licsár, Attila	Adaptive image processing methods	Pannon University, Veszprém	2007
7	Benedek, Csaba	Novel Markovian Change Detection Models in Computer Vision	Pázmány Péter Catholic Univ.	2008
8	Keszler, Anita	co-tutor, in progress	Technical University Budapest
9	Szolgay, Dániel	co-tutor, Video Event Detection and Visual Data Processing for Multimedia Applications	Pázmány Péter CU, Bordeaux Uni	2011
10	Kovács, Andrea	in progress	Pázmány Péter Catholic Univ.	2013
11	Ócsai, Katalin	in progress	Pázmány Péter Catholic Univ.
12	Kiss, Ákos	co-tutor, in progress	Technical University Budapest

Family: Krisztina, wife is a piano teacher; children (in 2007): Barbara (1987), Levente (1988), Marcell (1991)

Hobbies: Music (flute); Photography ; Mountaineering 1997, 2002, 2003, 2009; Skiing; Wandering in Nature Reserves 1998, 2008; Bike; Rowing