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Josef Bigun
He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Linkoeping University, in 1983 and 1988 respectively. In 1988, he joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) where he worked as Adjoint Scientifique until 1998 with the exception that in 1997 he was Visiting Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, (KTH)) Stockholm. He was elected Professor to the Signal Analysis Chair, his current position at Halmstad University, in 1998 as its first professor at the age of 37. His research was then academically placed at Chalmers University of Technology (Signals and Systems Institute) per government instruction, to allow advising or examination of PhD studies while on the payroll of Halmstad University. He has received the distinction of Fellow of the IAPR in 2000 and Fellow of the IEEE in 2003, becoming the first IEEE Fellow in Sweden for image analysis. In the field classified as "Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing" by Scopus, he is among the top 10 scientists in Sweden, according to the August 2024 update of a Stanford study that measured scientific impact of world Scientists, using six indices based on citations in Scopus. He is also listed among best Computer Science researchers of Sweden by research.com, using indices based on Google Scholar. He has been on technical and organizational committees of several national and international conferences, including ICPR, ICIP and ICB. In particular, he co-founded the first international conference on Audio and Video Based Person Authentication in 1997 (Switzerland), which became a flagship conference of the biometric identification research area, now known as ICB. He has contributed as an editorial board member to international scientific journals, including Image and Vision Computing, Pattern Recognition Letters, and IEEE Image Processing. He served on the executive committees of several scientific associations, including the International Association for Pattern Recognition, IAPR. He has co-authored and conducted national (e.g., VR and SSF projects in Sweden, Fonds National projects in Switzerland) and international projects (e.g., the EU projects BBfor2, BIOSECURE Network of Excellence, IT-VIRSBS, and ACTS-M2VTS). His research interests include Computer Vision and AI, particularly biometric signal analysis, texture analysis, and motion analysis. He is interested in modeling and understanding the biological recognition mechanisms of pattern recognition, particularly biological vision, to synchronize his own research with.
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