Tribute to Nicolas Galatsanos

Prof. Nikolaos Galatsanos (1958-2010)

• Statistical Image Modeling and Recovery– Restoration, Blind Deconvolution,

Super-resolution, Segmentation, Watermarking

• Bayesian Inference– Variational Approximation

– Student’s-t distribution

• How to define ‘edge preserving’ image priors

Prof. Nikolaos Galatsanos (1958-2010)

CS UOI (2002-2007)

• IPAN research group (CS UOI)– 5 TIP, 2 TMI, 2 TNN, 1 TSP, 1 SPM, 1 TIFS

• Deep Understanding of Fundamentals

• Commitment to teaching

• Student Mentoring and Inspiration

• Transition from CS to Computer Engineering

Prof. Nikolaos Galatsanos (1958-2010)– Professor 2/08-: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

University of Patras, Rio, Greece.– Professor 4/02-2/08: Department of Computer Science, University of

Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.– Visiting Research Scientist 1/99-7/99: Department of Informatics, University

of Athens, Athens, Greece.– Visiting Research Scientist 8/98-12/98: Electrical and Computer Engineering,

Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.– Visiting Research Scientist 5/98-8/98: Electrical and Computer Engineering,

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.– Associate Professor 8/95-3/02: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois

Inst. of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA. – Assistant Professor 8/89-8/95: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois

Inst. of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA.– Research Assistant 9/85-6/89: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of

Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, USA.– Teaching Assistant 9/83-6/89: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of

Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, USA.