Dimitri Androutsos

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR • PROGRAM DIRECTOR FOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING • NSERC ASSOCIATE CHAIR IN DESIGN ENGINEERING

Office: ENG427 Phone: 416.979.5000 x 6104 Fax: 416.979.5280 Email: Homepage: www.ee.ryerson.ca/~dimitri

BIOGRAPHY

• B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., Ph.D., (University of Toronto)
• January 2006 - present Adjunct Professor, The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
• June 2001 - August 2003 Senior Digital Signal Processing Engineer, SOMA Networks Inc.
• Dec 2000 - June 2001 Vision/Compression Research Scientistâ Finline Technologies
• Jan 2000 - Dec 2000 Software Engineer and DSP Specialist, A.F. Associates Inc.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Multimedia, Image and Video Processing, 3D cinema and stereography.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

• 2008 IEEE Toronto Section Service Appreciation Award
• 2008 Ryerson Electrical & Computer Engineering Graduate Students' Association Professor of the Year Award
• 2008 Ryerson IEEE Professor of the Year Award
• 2006 Ryerson IEEE Professor of the Year Award
• 2006 Ryerson Teaching Excellence Award
• 2004/2005 FEAS Teaching Excellence Award

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• R. Rzeszutek, T. El-Maraghi, D. Androutsos, S. Zhou, "An Advantageous Rotoscoping Method," Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE, vol.27, no.2, pp.34-39, March 2010.
• R. Rzeszutek, D. Androutsos, M. Kyan, "Self-Organizing Maps for Topic Trend Discovery", IEEE Signal Procesing Letters, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 607-610. June 2010.
• R. Phan, D. Androutsos, "Content-Based Retrieval of Logos and Trademarks in Unconstrained Color Image Databases using Color Edge Gradient Co-occurrence Histograms", Elsevier Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 114, No. 1, pp. 66-84, January 2010.
• Y. Mei, D. Androutsos, "Robust Affine Invariant Region-based Shape Descriptors: the ICA Zernike Moment Shape Descriptor and the Whitening Zernike Moment Shape Descriptor", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 16, No. 10, October 2009.

WINTER 2012 COURSES

 ELE 404 Electronics I