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).
Oppikirja Uusi oppikirja koneoppimisesta (koodiesimerkit vapaasti saatavilla): Koneoppimisen perusteet (Otatieto, 2023).
Research
My main research interests are robot vision and
robot learning.
I am broadly interested
about computer vision problems and machine learning.
I am involved in many applied research projects
and collaborate with industrial partners.
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. Samu Koskinen (PhD 2025), now engineer at Flock Safety
PhD Thesis:
Computational Color Constancy: Using spectral domain to aid color constancy for RGB images
- 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
Tampere University:
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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