Prof. Alan Bovik, CFR Endowed Chair Professor at UT Austin and the director of the Lab for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE) gave a talk on Secrets of Picture Quality on 20 December.
Prof. Alan Bovik has done some pioneering work in Image Quality, which has won him two Emmy awards, the Edison Medal and the IEEE Fourier Award to name a few. He is a towering personality in the field and has done pioneering work in the field of image and video quality assessment which has become the industry standard. He has won a Primetime Emmy Award (2015) and a Technology and Engineering Emmy Award (2021). He is one of the most highly cited engineers in the world and his book The Handbook of Image and Video Processing is used widely in courses across the World. He is a Fellow of NAE, INAE, NAI, Academia Europaea, Optica, SPIE, FRPS, IS&T and a Life Fellow of IEEE. He co-founded and was the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and was the first General Chair of ICIP.
Prof. Bovik is credited with the development of order statistic filters, the image modulation model, computational modelling of visual texture perception, theories of foveated image processing, and for widely used and disseminated image quality and video quality computational models and measurement tools that are used throughout the industry. His contributions include the invention or co-invention of the Emmy Award-winning Structural Similarity (SSIM) video quality measurement tool, the MOVIE Index, the Visual Information Fidelity (VIF) algorithms and several video quality prediction models. His algorithms are used to process most of the video content in the world including movies, cable, satellite and broadcast vides, streaming videos, discs and social media contents.
More about him at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bovik
December 2023