Vladimir Katkovnik
Oma esittely
Date and place of birth: February 17 1937, Leningrad, USSR
Nationality: Russia
Current address: Parkanonkatu 4D 52 Tampere, Finland
Education and degrees awarded
1974 D.Sc. (Doctor of Sc.) - Engineering Cybernetics (Automatic Control of Engineering Systems),
Leningrad, Polytechnic Institute, USSR, Leningrad, 1974. Thesis: "Linear estimation and stochastic
approximation methods".
1967 Ph.D. (Candidate of Sc.) - Engineering Cybernetics, Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, USSR,
Leningrad, 1964.
Thesis: "Multivariable digital control".
1960 M. Sc.-Mechanics and Control (Mechanics and Control Processes Department), Leningrad
Polytechnic Institute, USSR, Leningrad, 1960. Thesis: "Dynamics of extremum adaptive control
systems".
Current position:
Senior Researcher, Tampere University
Secondary occupation
Co-founder, "Noiseless Imaging Oy" (Tampere University of Technology spinoff company), since
2011
Previous work experience
2003-present, Senior Researcher, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Tampere, Finland
2000-2003, Professor, Kwangju Institute Science and Technology (K-JIST), Kwangju, Republic of
Korea
1991-1999, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria
1976-1991, Professor, Department of Mechanics and Control Processes, Leningrad Polytechnic
Institute (LPI)
1966-1976, Associate Professor, as above, 1961-1966, Assistant, as above.
Research funding
During last 10 years Two Research Grants from Academy of Sciences of Finland ('Interfero' (2011-
2014), `Sparse' (2015-2019); Private foundations ( `CIWIL', Teknologiateollisuuden 100-vuotissäätiö
& Jane and Aatos Erkon Säätiö, 2018 - 2021)
Leadership in research work:
Major research interests and scientific achievements have been in the following areas: Filtering,
Smoothing of Data and Image/Signal Processing: Parametric and Nonparametric Algorithms, Robust
Nonlinear Estimates, Nonstationary Processes, Time-Frequency Analysis . Stochastic Optimization:
Recursive Algorithms for Optimization of Multivariate Regressions, Optimization and Smoothing of
Data, Stochastic Approximation, Constrained Optimization. Automatic Control: Linear Optimal
Multivariable Stochastic Control, Digital Control, Adaptive Control and Identification. Mathematical
Models of Flexible Manufacturing Systems: Stochastic Modelling, Production Systems, Reliability
Systems.
Merits in teaching and pedagogical competence
More than 50 years teaching experience (LPI, UNISA, K-JIST, TUT);
Invited talks at universities and companies worldwide. Talks at major signal processing
conferences (ICIP, EUSIPCO, ICASSP, SPIE Electronic Imaging, DSP ).
Supervision: 23 Ph.D. students and 43 Master's students.
Recently, Four Doctoral Students Co-Supervised: A. Foi (2007), D. Paliy (2007), A. Danielyan
(2013), M. Kulya (2021).
Publications
Eight books
Over 200 refereed journal articles in highly ranked international Journals: IEEE Transactions on
Signal Processing and Image Processing , Optika, Optics Express, Pattern Recognition, etc. Over 300
papers in referred conference proceedings.
Scientific and societal impact of the applicant's own research (from Google Scholar)
Number of citations: 19540, h0-index: 50, h10-index 130.
Ten selected publications
1. Dabov, K.; Foi, A.; Katkovnik, V.; Egiazarian, K. (2007): Image Denoising by Sparse 3-D Transform-
Domain Collaborative Filtering, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 16, 8, 2080 - 2095
2. Foi, A.; Katkovnik, V.; Egiazarian, K. (2007): Pointwise Shape-Adaptive DCT for High-Quality
Denoising and Deblocking of Grayscale and Color Images, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 16, 5,
1395 - 1411
3. A Danielyan, V Katkovnik, K. Egiazarian (2012): BM3D frames and variational image deblurring,
IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 21 (4), 1715-1728
4. Katkovnik, V.; Foi, A.; Egiazarian, K.; Astola,J. (2010): From Local Kernel to Nonlocal Multiple-
Model Image Denoising, Intern. Journal of Computer Vision, 86, 1, 1-32
5. Foi, A.; Trimeche, M.; Katkovnik, V.; Egiazarian, K. (2008): "Practical Poissonian-Gaussian noise
modeling and fitting for single-image raw-data", IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 17,10,1737-1754
6. V. Katkovnik, J. Astola (2002): Compressive sensing computational ghost imaging, Journal JOSA,
29, 1556-1567
7. V. Katkovnik, K. Egiazarian, J. Astola (2008): Adaptive window size image de-noising based on
intersection of confidence intervals (ICI) rule, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision 16 (3),
223-235
8. V. Katkovnik, K. Egiazarian, J. Astola (2006): Local approximation techniques in signal and image
processing (book), SPIE
9. V. Katkovnik (1999): A new method for varying adaptive bandwidth selection, IEEE Transactions
on signal processing 47 (9), 2567-2571
10. SRM Rostami, S. Pinilla, I. Shevkunov, V. Katkovnik, K. Egiazarian (2021): Power-balanced
hybrid optics boosted design for achromatic extended depth-of-field imaging via optimized mixed
OTF, Applied Optics 60 (30), 9365-9378