2nd Edition of my Prentice Hall book
Prof. Dr. A. Murat Tekalp
2nd Edition of my Prentice Hall book
A. Murat Tekalp received
BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Bogazici
University in 1980 with high honors, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York, in 1982 and 1984,
respectively. He has been with Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New
York, from December 1984 to June 1987, and with the University of
Rochester, Rochester, New York, from July 1987 to June 2005, where he
was promoted to Distinguished University Professor. Since June 2001, he
is a Professor at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey. He has been the
Dean of Engineering at Koç University between 2010-2013. His research
interests are in the area of digital image and video processing,
including video compression and streaming, motion-compensated
filtering, super-resolution, video segmentation, object tracking,
content-based video analysis and summarization, 3D video processing,
deep learning for image and video pocessing, video streaming and
real-time video communications services, and software-defined
networking.
Prof. Tekalp is a Fellow of IEEE and a member of Turkish Academy of
Sciences and Academia Europaea. He was named as Distinguished Lecturer
by IEEE Signal Processing Society in 1998, and awarded a Fulbright
Senior Scholarship in 1999. He received the TUBITAK Science Award
(highest scientific award in Turkey) in 2004.
He has chaired the IEEE
Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Image and
Multidimensional Signal Processing (Jan. 1996 - Dec. 1997).
He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier journal Signal
Processing: Image Communication (2000-2010). He was an Associate Editor
for the IEEE
Trans. on Signal Processing (1990-1992), IEEE Trans. on Image
Processing (1994-1996), and the Kluwer Journal Multidimensional Systems
and Signal Processing (1994-2002). He was an area editor for the
Academic Press Journal Graphical Models and Image Processing
(1995-1998). He was also on the editorial board of the Academic Press Journal Visual
Communication and Image Representation (1995-2002) and IEEE Signal
Processing Magazine (2007-2010). He is currently in
the IEEE Press Board (2018- ) and the Editorial Board of the
Proceedings of the IEEE (2014-).
He is the founder and
first Chairman of the Rochester Chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing
Society. He was elected as the Chair of the Rochester Section of IEEE
in 1994-1995. He was
appointed as the Technical Program Chair for the 1991 IEEE Signal
Processing Society Workshop on Image and Multidimensional Signal
Processing, the Special Sessions Chair for the 1995 IEEE International
Conference on Image
Processing, the Technical Program Co-Chair for IEEE ICASSP 2000 in
Istanbul, Turkey, the General Chair of IEEE International Conference on
Image Processing (ICIP) at Rochester, NY in 2002, and Technical Program
Co-Chair of EUSIPCO 2005 in Antalya, Turkey.
The new edition of his Prentice Hall book Digital Video Processing
(1995) is published in June 2015. Dr. Tekalp holds eight US patents.
His group contributed technology to the ISO/IEC MPEG-4 and MPEG-7
standards. He participates in several European Framework projects, and
is also a project evaluator for the European Commission and panel
member for European Research Council.
