The Fifth IASTED International Conference on
Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications
~SPPRA 2008~
February 13 – 15, 2008
Innsbruck, Austria
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Splines: A Unifying Framework for Signal and Image Processing
Biography of the Keynote Speaker

Michael Unser is Professor and Director of EPFL's Biomedical Imaging Group, Lausanne, Switzerland. His main research area is biomedical image processing. He has a strong interest in sampling theories, multi-resolution algorithms, wavelets, and the use of splines for image processing. He has published over 150 journal papers on those topics, and is one of ISI's Highly Cited authors in Engineering (http://isihighlycited.com).
From 1985 to 1997, he was with the Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Program, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA, conducting research on bioimaging and heading the Image Processing Group.
Dr. Unser is a fellow of the IEEE and the recipient of three Best Paper Awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society.












