Tamás Szirányi

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

Phone: (36)(1) 2522574

Present Positions:

Scientific Adviser with the Computer and Automation Inst. of Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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

E-mail:NOSPAM.sziranyi at sztaki.hu, Phone: (36)(1) 279 6106, Fax: (36)(1) 279 6292

Head of Distributed Events Analysis Research Group (DEVA; Elosztott Események Elemzése, EEE)

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

Professor with the Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Department of Information Technology

Associate Editor of IEEE Tr. Image Processing, Senior member of IEEE

Fellow of IAPR

Representative of Doctors of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 2007

Member of the Hungarian Academy of Engineering

Member of the board of Trustees of Bolyai Research Fellowship

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 Peter Pazmany 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 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 and digital hardware.

Presently he is project/task leader in two national R&D projects: Video Indexing (GVOP) and Monlingv (database searching for Police).

He was project leader in two previous 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 110 scientific papers (including more than 30 in SCI journals), and known distinct references to his publications are about 300.

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 is 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 and 1999. He was an invited plenary speaker of MRCS 2006.

He was honored by the Széchenyi professorship 2000-2003, by SzTAKI’s scientific award 4 times and by the Master Professor award in 2001.

Publication-list, Abstracts, Demos

Visited to INRIA (Sophia Antipolis, France: Dr. Josiane 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, 1997), Research Center "E. Piaggio" (Pisa, Prof. Paolo Dario, 1987).

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

Hobbies: Music (flute), Mountaineering 1997, 2002,2003, Skiing, Wandering in Nature Reserves, Bike, Rowing