I am Professor of Signal Processing at Computing Sciences department at
Tampere University where I am
part of
the Vision Group.
I did my post-doc in Center of Vision, Speech and Signal Processing,
University of Surrey, with Josef Kittler. After my post-doc I spent
five years in the Faculty of the LUT School of Engineering Science, LUT University,
after which I was selected to the current tenure-track position in
2012 (tenured 2017 and promoted to full professor 2020).
NEW! A new course book about machine learning (in Finnish): Koneoppimisen perusteet (Otatieto, 2023).
Research
My main research interests are computer vision,
image processing and machine learning.
I am broadly interested
about computer vision problems and recently my attention
has moved toward robot vision and machine learning for robotics.
I am involved in many applied research projects
where I collaborate with the local industry.
You can find more information from the Vision Group Web page at
research.tuni.fi/vision.
Alumni
I've been privileged to supervise the following brilliant people:
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Former PhD Students
- Dr. Fatemeh Shokollahi Yancheshmeh (PhD 2024), now engineer at Ericsson AB
PhD Thesis:
Visual Similarity for Object Detection and Alignment
- Dr. Farid Alijani (PhD 2023, co-advised with Esa Rahtu)
PhD Thesis:
Long-term Visual Place Recognition Under Varying Conditions
- Dr. Jukka Peltomäki (PhD 2023, co-advised with Esa Rahtu and Heikki Huttunen), now Postdoc at Tampere University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
PhD Thesis:
LiDAR Place Recognition with Image Retrieval
- Dr. Song Yan (PhD 2022), now Computer Vision Engineer at Honor
PhD Thesis:
Vision and Depth Based Computerized Anthropometry and Object Tracking
- Dr. Junsheng Fu (PhD 2022, co-advised with Said Pertuz), now Senior Algorithm Engineer at Zenseact
PhD Thesis:
Camera Pose Estimation from Street-view Snapshots and Point Clouds
- Dr. Ugur Kart (PhD 2021, co-advised with Jiri Matas), now Computer Vision Engineer at Scandit
PhD Thesis:
Visual Object Tracking on RGBD Videos Using Discriminative Correlation Filters
- Dr. Pouria Babahajiani (PhD 2021, co-advised with Moncef Gabbouj), now Imaging Engineer at Huawei
PhD Thesis:
Geometric Computer Vision: Omnidirectional Visual and Remotely Sensed Data Analysis
- Dr. Antti Hietanen (PhD 2021, co-advised with Minna Lanz), now Autonomous Vehicles Expert in Sensible 4 Ltd
PhD Thesis:
Computer Vision for Robotics: Feature Matching, Pose Estimation and Safe Human-Robot Collaboration
- Dr. Yanlin Qian (PhD 2020, co-advised with Jiri Matas), now Senior Engineer at Honor Device Co
PhD Thesis:
Computational Color Constancy: From Pixel to Video with a Stop at Convolutional Neural Network
- Dr. Katariina Mahkonen (PhD 2018, co-advised with Tuomas Virtanen), now Algorithm Designer at Meluta Oy
PhD Thesis:
Efficient and Robust Methods for Audio and Video Signal Analysis
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Dr. Ekaterina Riabchenko (PhD 2015), now Senior Vision System Specialist at Helmee Imaging Ltd
PhD Thesis:
Generative Part-based Gabor Object Detector
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Dr. Jukka Lankinen (PhD 2014), now Software Developer
PhD Thesis:
Local Features in Image and Video Processing - Object Class Matching and Video Shot Detection
- Dr. Tommi Tykkälä
(PhD 2013), now Computer Vision Freelancer
PhD Thesis:
Real-time Image-based RGB-D Camera Motion Tracking and Environment Mapping
- Dr. Teemu Kinnunen
(PhD 2011, co-advised with Heikki Kälviäinen and Lasse Lensu), now Lead Data Scientist at Futurice
PhD Thesis:
Bag-of-Features Approach to Unsupervised Visual Object Categorisation
- Dr. Tomi Kauppi
(PhD 2010, co-advised with Heikki Kälviäinen and Lasse Lensu), now CRO at Finnos
PhD Thesis:
Eye Fundus Image Analysis for Automatic Detection of Diabethic Retinopathy
- Dr. Tuomas Eerola
(PhD 2010, co-advised with Heikki Kälviäinen and Lasse Lensu), now Postdoc Researcher at Lappeenranta University of Technology
PhD Thesis:
Computational Visual Quality of Digitally Printed Images
- Dr. Jarkko Vartiainen
(PhD 2010, co-advised with Heikki Kälviäinen and Lasse Lensu), now Software Engineer at Knowit
PhD Thesis:
Measuring Irregularities and Surface Defects from Printed Patterns
- Dr. Jarmo Ilonen
(PhD 2007, co-advised with Heikki Kälviäinen), now Machine Vision Specialist at Vision Systems Ltd
PhD Thesis:
Supervised Local Image Feature Detection
Former Postdocs
- Nataliya Strokina
(2013-2021), now Staff Scientist at Tampere University.
- Eric Halbach
(2016-2019), now Senior Scientist at VTT.
- Said Pertuz
(2016-2018), now assistant professor at Universidad Industrial de Santander
- Ke "Cory" Chen
(2013-2018), now associate professor at South China University of Technology
Teaching
Publications
See the Web page of our research group (Computer Vision Group) or my Google Scholar
profile
Funding Sources
Press Coverage
Societal Impact
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