Tudor Barbu
Dr. habil. Tudor Barbu is currently Senior Researcher I at the Institute of Computer Science of the Romanian Academy. He is the coordinator of the image and video processing research collective at this institute. Mr. Barbu has a PhD degree in Computer Science, awarded by the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers of the University “Politehnica” of Bucharest. In the last decade he published 4 books and 10 book chapters as single or main author. Also, Dr. Tudor Barbu published more than 170 articles in recognized international journals and volumes of international scientific events (conferences, symposiums and workshops). His scientific activity also includes more than 40 research reports, elaborated with the institute research team coordinated by him or related to various research projects. His scientific publications have 1230 citations, according to Google-Academic. In recent years he also coordinated various research directions in 11 projects based on contracts/grants. Dr. Tudor Barbu received also several awards for his research results, the most important being the Romanian Academy Prize “Gheorghe Cartianu”, in the Information Science and Technology domain, awarded on December 18, 2008. He is a member of 30 conference scientific committees and also member of scientific and technical committee and editorial review boards of 9 journals. His main scientific areas of interest are: digital media (audio, video and image) signal processing and analysis, pattern recognition, computer vision, multimedia information storage, indexing and retrieval, and biometric authentication using voice, face and digital fingerprint recognition.