Speaker: Christos Grecos, Sohar University
Theme:  Research Directions in Visual Communications
Time: 10：00, 10th, July. 2015
Venue: Room 112, Nan Tang
Organizer: College of Information and Control Engineering, International Office

Introduction:
Christos Grecos (SM IEEE 06, SM SPIE 2008) will start working as a professor and the dean of School of Computing and Information Sciences at Sohar University, Oman. Previous, he worked as a Professor in Visual Communications Standards, and Head of School of Computing in the University of the West of Scotland and previously in the Universities of Central Lancashire and Loughborough, all in UK. His research interests include image/video compression standards, image/video processing and analysis, image/video networking and computer vision. He has published over 160 research papers in top-tier international publications including a number of IEEE transactions on these topics. He is on the editorial board or served as guest editor for many international journals, and he has been invited to give talks in various international conferences. He has obtained significant funding for his research as the Principal Investigator for several national or international projects funded by UK EPSRC, TSB and EU. He received his PhD degree in Image/Video Coding Algorithms from the University of Glamorgan (now University of South Wales), UK in 2001.
 

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