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 EDUCATION

1972 - 1977  Belarussian State University, Mathematical Faculty,  Minsk, RB
1986 - 1989  Post-Graduate Courses, Institute of Engineering Cybernetics
                     (IEC) of National Academy of Sciences, Minsk, RB
1992-1995    Professorial Courses (Doctoratura), Institute of Engineering
                     Cybernetics (IEC) of National Academy of Sciences, Minsk, RB

QUALIFICATIONS

1977 Diploma on Mathematics (MSc), Belarussian State University, Minsk, RB.
1990 Candidate of Sciences (PhD) Diploma in Computer engineering
         Institute of Cybernetics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine,
         (confirmed in 1990 by VAK of the USSR Council of Ministers, Moscow,  USSR).
1999 Doctor of Sciences Diploma (DCs) in Computer Engineering and Informatics
         Institute of Engineering Cybernetics, National Academy of Sciences, Minsk, Belarus
        (confirmed in 2000  by VAK of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk,  Belarus).
 

 EMPLOYMENT

From 1977- to date I work in IEC as
         Engineer,
         Senior engineer,
         Junior research scientist,
         Research fellow,
         Senior research fellow,
         Leading research fellow,
        Principal research fellow (since 1 April 2001).
 

Teaching:

Belarussian State University (Minsk,RB)
1990-1991  Part-time Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Applied Mathematics.
            Lecture course on "Systems for image processing".

Belarussian State Technological University (Minsk,RB)

2000-2001  Part-time Professor in the Faculty of Polygraph.
            Lecture course on "Systems for information processing".

Belarussian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics (Minsk,RB)

2001-date  Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences.
            Lecture course on "Computer Graphics".
 
 

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

1. Starovoitov V.,  Local Geometric Methods for Image Processing and Analysis, Minsk,  IEC, 1997, 285p. (monograph in Russian).
2. Starovoitov V., Ablameyko S., Ishikawa S. and Kawaguchi E., Binary texture border extraction on line-drawings based on distance transform, Pattern Recognition, No.8, p.1165-1176, 1993. (Abstract)
3. Starovoitov V., A clustering technique based on the distance transform, Pattern Recognition Letters,  Vol.17, No.3, p.231-239, 1996. (Abstract)
4. Starovoitov V. A note on a new class of metrics: touching metrics. Vision Geometry V , SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. (USA), 77-88, vol.2826, 1996. (Abstract)
5. Zamperoni P. and Starovoitov V., On measures of dissimilarity between arbitrary gray scale images, Int. Journal of Shape Modeling, Vol.2, No.2&3, p.189-213, 1996. (Abstract)
6. Starovoitov V., Strategies and geometric models for gray scale image matching: recent progress, Vision Geometry VI, SPIE Conf., San Diego, USA,  Aug. 1997, Proc. SPIE, Vol.3168, p.358-369. (Abstract)
7. Starovoitov V. And Tchetverenko S. Sampling effect of figure features based on moments. Vision Geometry VII, SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. (USA), 260-71, vol.3454, 1998. (Abstract)
8. Starovoitov V., Jeong S.Y. and Park R.-H.,Texture periodicity detection: features, properties, and comparisons,  IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol.28, No.6, 839-849, 1998. (Abstract)
9. Di Gesu V. and Starovoitov V., Distance-based functions for image comparison, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol.20, No.2, 207-214, 1999. (Abstract)
10. V. Starovoitov and D. Samal, A geometric approach to face recognition, Proc. of  Workshop Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, vol. I, Antalya, Turkey, pp. 210-213, June 1999.

(Abstract), (Paper in PDF-format, 213K)
11. Starovoitov V. and Samal D. Comparison of rotation algorithms for digital images. . Vision Geometry VIII, SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. (USA), 346-56, vol.3811, 1999. (Abstract)
12. V. Starovoitov, D. Samal and B. Sankur, Matching of faces in camera images and document photographs, Proc. of Int.Conf. on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. IV, Istanbul, pp.2349-2352, June 2000.

(Abstract), (Paper in PDF-format, 825K)

1. Short course "Error Measures for Comparison of Digital Images and Evaluation of Image Processing Algorithms",  at the SPIE's  Int. Symposium on Optical Sciences, Engineering, and Instrumentation, San Diego, CA, USA, July 1998.
2. Plenary lecture “Digital Image Comparison”, at the 5th Int. Conference on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing, Minsk, Belarus, May 1999.
 

Last update 25 Febryary, 2002