ITU-T Workshop Video and Image Coding and Applications (VICA) BIO Geneva, 22-23 July 2005 Touradj Ebrahimi EPFL/Switzerland Session: 4: Image coding Title of Presentation: JPEG 2000: A versatile image coding system for multimedia applications Touradj Ebrahimi is currently Professor at EPFL involved in research and teaching of multimedia signal processing. He has been the recipient of various distinctions such as the IEEE and Swiss national ASE award, the SNF-PROFILE grant for advanced researchers, three ISO-Certificates for key contributions to MPEG-4 and JPEG 2000, and the best paper award of IEEE Trans. on Consumer Electronics. Prof. Ebrahimi has initiated more than two dozen National, European and International cooperation projects with leading companies and research institutes around the world. He is also the head of the Swiss delegation to MPEG, JPEG and SC29, and acts as the Chairman of Advisory Group on Management in SC29. He is the author or the co-author of more than 100 research publications, and holds 10 patents