Alan Bovik
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| Born |
June 25, 1958 Kirkwood, Missouri |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Digital Television; Image Processing; Vision Science; Video Processing; Image Quality; Computational Neuroscience |
| Institutions | The University of Texas at Austin |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois |
| Doctoral advisor |
Thomas Huang David C. Munson, Jr. |
| Notable awards |
2015 Primetime Emmy Award 2017 Edwin H. Land Medal |
Alan Conrad Bovik (born June 25, 1958) is a Primetime Emmy Award-winning American engineer and vision scientist, and a Professor at The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin), where he holds the Cockrell Family Regents Endowed Chair and is Director of the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering(LIVE). He is a faculty member in the UT-Austin Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (UT ECE), the Institute for Neuroscience (INS), and the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG).
He was educated at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (PhD 1984)
He has made numerous fundamental contributions to the fields of Digital Image Processing, Digital Video Processing, Digital Television, digital cinema, and Computational Visual Perception. He is well known for his work on image processing, low-level vision, natural scene modeling, image quality and video quality.
He has published more than 800 books and articles in these areas. He is also the author/editor of The Handbook of Image and Video Processing (Academic Press, 2nd edition, 2005), with Zhou Wang of Modern Image Quality Assessment (Morgan and Claypool, 2006), and he authored/edited the companion books The Essential Guide to Image Processing and The Essential Guide to Video Processing (Academic Press, 2009). Overall, his work has been cited in the scientific and engineering literature more than 60,000 times according to Google Scholar. He is one of the most highly cited engineers in the world (top 1%) according to Thomson-Reuters.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of The Optical Society, and a Fellow of the Society of Photo-Optical and Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). He received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development in 2015 (Primetime Emmy Engineering Award) from the Television Academy, for the development of video quality measurement tools that are used throughout the global broadcast, cable, and satellite Television industry. He also received the 2017 Edwin H. Land Medal "For substantially shaping the direction and advancement of modern perceptual picture quality computation, and for energetically engaging industry to transform his ideas into global practice." He was named a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 2008.
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