Curriculum vitae

Georgy L. Gimel'farb, Ph.D., D.Sc.(Eng)

Education and scientific degrees:

• D.Sc.(Eng) on Control in Engineering Systems, 1991, Moscow, Russia,
  Higher Certifying Commission of the USSR
• Ph.D. on Engineering Cybernetics, 1968, Kiev, Ukraine, Institute of Cybernetics
• M.Sc. on Computational and Mathematical Devices, 1962, Kiev, Ukraine,
  Kiev Polytechnical Institute (diploma with honours).

Professional career:

• Department of Computer Science,
  The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand -
• Professor (since February 2012)
• Associate Professor (since February 2000)
• Senior Lecturer (July 1997 - January 2000)
• International Training and Research Centre for Information Technologies and Systems
  (National Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Education of Ukraine), Kiev, Ukraine -
• Image Recognition Dept. -
• leading research fellow - head of research group 1997 - 2000)
• V.M.Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics
  (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), Kiev, Ukraine -
• Image Recognition Dept. -
• leading research fellow - head of research group (1992 - 1997);
  senior research fellow (1983 - 1992)
• Robotics Dept. -
• senior research fellow (1972 - 1983); junior research fellow (1970 - 1972)
• Pattern Recognition Dept. -
• junior research fellow (1969 - 1970); leading engineer (1968 -1969);
  senior engineer (1966 - 1968); engineer (1962 - 1966)
• Invited researcher / visiting scholar:
• 2009, August - September - Finland, Oulu, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland,
            Media Technologies / Digital World (Prof. C.Sodergard, H.Ailisto, J. Peltola)
• 2005, April - December; 2003, July - 2004, January; 2000, June-July -
           USA, Louisville, Kentucky, University of Louisville,
            Computer Vision and Image Processing Laboratory (Prof. A. A. Farag)
• 2002, June; 1999, January-February - Germany, Berlin,
            Institute for Space Sensor Technology, DLR (Prof.Dr.H.Jahn)
• 1997, March-July - France, Sophia Antipolis, INRIA (Dr. J. Zerubia)
• 1996, October-December - Germany, Bonn, University of Bonn,
            Institute for Photogrammetry (Prof. Dr. W. Foerstner)
• 1996, July-August - USA, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania,
            Medical Image Processing Group (Prof. G. Herman)
• 1996, June-July; 1995, January-February - USA, Seattle, University of Washington,
            Intelligent Systems Laboratory (Prof. R. Haralick)
• 1996, May; 1994, May - 1995, December - Hungary, Budapest,
            Computer and Automation Research Institute (MTA SzTAKI),
            Image and Pattern Analysis Group (Dr. D. Chetverikov)
• 1994, August-September- USA, East Lansing, Michigan State University,
            Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Laboratory (Prof. A. K. Jain)

Educational activities:

• since 2012 - Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science -
            The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
• 2000 - 2011 - Associate Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science -
            The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
• 1997 - 1999 - Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science -
            The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
• 1991 - 1994 - Invited Part-time Professor, Kiev National University,
            Special Engineering Faculty, two-semester course on digital image processing and medical imaging

Research profiles:

• Low-level image processing
• Texture analysis and synthesis
• Query-by-texture image retrieval
• Computational bi- and trinocular stereo
• Terrain reconstruction from multiple views
• Statistical pattern recognition
• Space and aerial multiband image analysis
• 3D scene understanding

Selected recent research projects

Professional activities:

• State Premium 1997 on science and technology, Ukraine

• IAPR (Int. Association for Pattern Recognition) Image & Vision Computing New Zealand (member - since 1998)

• Since 2010: Member of the IAPR Advisory Committee
• Co-organiser: Joint IAPR International Workshops on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR 2012) and Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR 2012); Miyajima-Itsukushima, Hiroshima, 7 - 9 November, 2012.
• Area co-chair: Track I "Computer Vision",
            20^th Int. IAPR Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010), Istanbul, Turkey, August 2010
• Co-chair: Track IV "Mutimodal interaction and multimedia processing",
            19^th Int. IAPR Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2008), Tampa, Florida, USA, August 2008
• Member of more than 50 programme committees since 2002, including ACIVS 2002 - 2012; CAIP 2003 - 2011; CVPR 2007; ECCV 2004 - 2008; ICIP 2012; ICCV 2005 - 2009; ICPR 2004 - 2010; IVCNZ 2002 - 2012; MICCAI 2009; S+SSPR 2002 - 2012, etc.
• Reviewer for professional journals including IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, International Journal of Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition Letters, Pattern Recognition, etc.

Selected publications: total number of the refereed publications up to 2012 - more than 340 in English, Russian, and Ukrainian, including three monographs (one in English), two edited books (in English), one textbook (two editions in English), 38 journal articles (27 in English and 5 translated into English from Russian), 66 book sections (24 in English), 225 conference papers (191 in English), and 4 inventions (one in English).