Professor Georgy Gimel'farb

Biography

• Since July 1997: Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland
• July 1962 - July 1997 Institute of Cybernetics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• 1991 - 1994 Invited professor, Kiev National University, Kiev, Ukraine

Invited researcher:

• 2009 VTT National Research Centre of Finland, Oulu, Espoo, Finland
• 2005, 2003-2004, 2000 Computer Vision and Image Processing Lab., University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA
• 2002, 1999 Institute for Space Sensor Technology and Planetary Exploration, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Berlin, Germany
• 1997 National Research Institute for Informatics and Automatics (INRIA), Sophia Antipolis, France
• 1996 Institute for Photogrammetry, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
• 1996 Medical Image Processing Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
• 1995, 1996 Intelligent Systems Lab., University of Washington, Seattle, USA
• 1994 - 1995 Image and Pattern Analysis Group, Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
• 1994 Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Lab., Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA 

More information: see my homepage: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~georgy/

Research | Current

• Computer stereo vision
• Image retrieval
• Image segmentation and registration
• Texture analysis and modelling
• Accurate identification of Markov random field models

Teaching | Current

2014: COMPSCI 773 S1C Intelligent Vision Systems; COMPSCI 373 S1C Computer Graphics and Image Processing; COMPSCI 220 S2C Algorithms and Data Structures.

Postgraduate supervision

2014: 4 PhD students (UoA) + 1 PhD student (University of Oulu, Finland)

Distinctions/Honours

Ukrainian State Award 1997 in Science and Technology

Areas of expertise

Stochastic image modelling, texture analysis, 3D vision, medical image analysis

Committees/Professional groups/Services

IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition) Advisory Committee, since 2010