ITU-T Workshop
Video and Image Coding and Applications
(VICA)
BIO
Geneva, 22-23 July 2005
Touradj Ebrahimi
EPFL/Switzerland
Chair Session:
6: Future trends in VICA
Speaker
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