Pr. A. Baskurt was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1960. He received the B.S. degree in 1984, the M.S. in 1985 and the Ph.D. in 1989, all in electrical engineering from INSA of Lyon, France. From 1989 to 1998, he was "Maître de Conférences" at INSA of Lyon. Since 1998, he is Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, first at the University Claude Bernard of Lyon, and now at INSA of Lyon.

Between 2003 and march 2008, he was the Director of the Telecommunication Department of INSA.

During 2008, he was the Deputy Director of the research center LIRIS.

Between septembre 2006 and december 2008, he was "Chargé de mission" on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) at the French Research Ministry

Currently, he is Director of the research center LIRIS.

Pr. A. Baskurt leads his research activities in two teams of LIRIS: the IMAGINE team and the M2DisCo team. These teams work on image and 3D data analysis and segmentation for image compression, image retrieval, shape detection and identification. His technical research and experience include digital image processing, 2D-3D data analysis, compression, retrieval and watermarking, especially for multimedia applications.

Latest publications:

3D Object Processing: Compression, Indexing and Watermarking, Jean-Luc Dugelay, Atilla Baskurt, Mohamed Daoudi (Editors), John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 978-0-470-06542-6, April 2008.

I. Daoudi, K. Idrissi , S.E. Ouatik, A. Baskurt, D. Aboutajdine, “An efficient High-Dimensionnal Indexing Method for Content-Based Image Retrieval in Large Image Databases”, EURASIP Journal, Signal processing : Image communication, accepted june 2009, to appear in 2010.

J Revaud, G Lavoué, A. Baskurt, “Improving Zernike Moments Comparison for Optimal Similarity and Rotation Angle Retrieval”, IEEE Transactions on PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE (PAMI), Vol. 31, No.4, pp. 627-636, 2009.

K. Wang, G Lavoué, F Denis, A. Baskurt, “Hierarchical Watermarking of Semi-regular Meshes Based on Wavelet Transform”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security,  3(4): pp. 620-634, 2008.

K. Wang, G. Lavoué, F. Denis, A. Baskurt, “A Comprehensive Survey on Three-Dimensional Mesh Watermarking”, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 10(8): pp. 1513-1527, 2008.

B. Tellez, N. Zlatoff, A. Baskurt, “Combining local belief from low-level primitives for perceptual grouping”, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 41,  No 4, pp. 1215– 1229, 2008. (Copyright Elsevier)

G. Lavoué, F. Dupont, A. Baskurt, “A framework for quad/triangle subdivision surface fitting:  Application to mechanical objects”, Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 26, No.1, pp. 1-14, 2007. (Copyright Blackwell)

G. Lavoué, F. Dupont, A. Baskurt, “High rate compression of CAD meshes based on subdivision inversion”, Annals of Telecommunications, 2005, Vol. 60, No.11-12, pp. 1286-1310, 2005.

J. Ricard , D. Coeurjolly, A. Baskurt, “Generalizations of Angular Radial Transform for 2D and 3D Shape Retrieval”, Pattern Recognition Letters, 2005, Vol. 26, No. 14, pp. 2174-2186, 2005. (Copyright Elsevier)

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