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Rastislav Lukac received M.S. (Ing.)
and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications from the Technical University of
Kosice, Slovak Republic, in 1998 and 2001, respectively. From February
2001 to August 2002, he was an assistant professor with the Department
of Electronics and Multimedia Communications at the Technical University
of Kosice. From August 2002 to July 2003, he was a researcher with the
Slovak Image Processing Center in Dobsina, Slovak Republic. From January
2003 to March 2003, he was a postdoctoral fellow with the Artificial
Intelligence and Information Analysis Laboratory, Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki, Greece. From May 2003 to August 2006, he was a
postdoctoral fellow with the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto,
Canada. From September 2006 to May 2009, he was a senior image
processing scientist at Epson Canada Ltd., Toronto, Canada. In June
2009, he was a visiting researcher with the Intelligent Systems
Laboratory, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Since
August 2009, he has been a senior digital imaging scientist -- image
processing manager at Foveon, Inc. / Sigma Corp., San Jose, USA. He is an author of
four
books and four textbooks, a contributor to nine books and three
textbooks, and he has published over 200 scholarly research papers in
the areas of digital camera image processing, color image and video
processing, multimedia security, and microarray image processing. He is
an author of over 25 patent-pending inventions in the areas of digital
color imaging and pattern recognition. |
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Dr. Rastislav Lukac
e-mail: lukacr AT
ieee.org
e-mail: lukacr AT
colorimageprocessing.com
web:
http://www.colorimageprocessing.com |
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Dr. Lukac is a
senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
where he belongs to the Circuits and Systems, Consumer Electronics, and
Signal Processing societies. He is a Digital Imaging and Computer
Vision book series editor in CRC Press / Taylor & Francis. He is an
editor of the books Single-Sensor Imaging: Methods and Applications
for Digital Cameras (Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press / Taylor & Francis,
September 2008) and Color Image Processing: Methods and Applications
(Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press / Taylor & Francis, October 2006). He is a
guest editor of Real-Time Imaging, Special Issue on
Multi-Dimensional Image Processing, Computer Vision and Image
Understanding, Special Issue on Color Image Processing,
International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, Special
Issue on Applied Color Image Processing, and International Journal of
Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Special Issue on
Facial Image Processing and Analysis. He is an associate editor for the
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
and the Journal of Real-Time Image Processing. He is an editorial board
member for Encyclopedia of Multimedia (2nd Edition, Springer,
September 2008). He serves as a technical reviewer for over 30 major
scientific journals in the areas of his expertise, and he participates
as a member of a number of international conference committees. He is
the recipient of the 2003 North Atlantic Treaty Organization /
National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NATO/NSERC)
Science Award, the Most Cited Paper Award for the Journal of Visual
Communication and Image Representation for the years 2005-2007, and
the author of the #1 article in the ScienceDirect Top 25 Hottest
Articles in Signal Processing for April-June 2008. |
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