Professor Maria Petrou, FREng Page 1 of 2 Maria Petrou, FREng

Professor of Image Analysis. B.Sc. in Physics, 1975, Aristotelion University of , . Part III, Mathematical Tripos, 1977, , UK. Ph.D. in Astronomy, 1981, University of Cambridge, UK. Fellow of IEE, 1998. Chartered Engineer, 1999. Fellow of IAPR, 2000. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, 2004.

Background

Maria Petrou has been a lecturer in Astronomy at the Kapodistrian University of Athens (1981-1983) and a Post Doctoral Research Assistant at the , Department of Theoretical Physics (1983-1986). She has been working on since 1986, initially as a Research Associate at the NERC Unit for Thematic Information Systems (NUTIS) in the Geography Department of Reading University, later as an Atlas Research Fellow of St. Hilda's College Oxford at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and since 1988 at the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering of Surrey University, initially as a lecturer subsequently as a Senior Lecturer then as a Reader and since 1998 as Professor of Image Analysis.

Research Interests

Her research interests include many topics on Image Processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, with applications in Biomedicine, Geoscience, etc, as well as research in basic methodology (eg you may download a software package on the Trace transform from (Trace Transform)). She is the Project Leader of a Basic Technology UK Research Councils project on Reverse Engineering the Human Vision System, (BASIC) and she holds a portfolio grant from EPSRC in collaboration with other members of the (portfolio). She has more than 250 publications (click here to view them in postscript format), (or here as a PDF file) (more than 90 in refereed journals) and numerous articles of journalistic nature, like book reviews and conference reports. She has co-authored a book: ``Image Processing, the fundamentals'', John Wiley publishers, ISBN 0471 99883 4 . She has served as the chairman of the IAPR Technical Committee 7 for Remote Sensing (1998-2002) (TC7), and the chairman of the British Machine Vision Association, and Society for Pattern Recognition (1999-2002) (BMVA). She has served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and as the newsletter editor of the International Association for Pattern Recognition for 5 years (1994-98) (IAPR) . She is a Fellow of IEE, a Fellow of IAPR, and a member of the IEEE. She is currently an Honorary Editor of IEE Electronics Letters (EL), and a Theme Leader for the Data and Information Fusion Defence Technology Centre (DIF-DTC). She is in the Editorial board of the journals Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis (ELCVIA), the journal Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, (PRIA), the journal of Applied Intelligence (AI) and the journal Pattern Analysis and Applications (PAA).

Some fun!

Ironing instructions for the ironing robot challenge.

Editorial of the IAPR Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 1, 1994.

Editorial of the IAPR Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 2, 1994.

Editorial of the IAPR Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 3, 1994.

Editorial of the IAPR Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 4, 1994.

Editorial of the IAPR Newsletter, Volume 17, Number 1, 1995.

Editorial of the IAPR Newsletter, Volume 17, Number 2, 1995.

Editorial of the IAPR Newsletter, Volume 17, Number 3, 1995.

Editorial of the IAPR Newsletter, Volume 17, Number 4, 1995.

Editorial of the IAPR Newsletter, Volume 18, Number 1, 1996.

Editorial of the IAPR Newsletter, Volume 18, Number 2, 1996, with cartoon.

Editorial of the IAPR Newsletter, Volume 18, Number 3, 1996, with cartoon.

Editorial of the IAPR Newsletter, Volume 18, Number 4, 1996.

Editorial of the IAPR Newsletter, Volume 19, Number 1, 1997, with cartoon.

Editorial of the IAPR Newsletter, Volume 19, Number 2, 1997.

Editorial of the IAPR Newsletter, Volume 19, Number 3, 1997, with cartoons.

Editorial of the IAPR Newsletter, Volume 19, Number 4, 1997, with cartoons.

Editorial of the IAPR Newsletter, Volume 20, Number 1, 1998. http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/M.Petrou/ 2004/08/19 Professor Maria Petrou, FREng Page 2 of 2 Editorial of the IAPR Newsletter, Volume 20, Number 2, 1998.

Editorial of the IAPR Newsletter, Volume 20, Number 3, 1998, with cartoon.

Editorial of the IAPR Newsletter, Volume 20, Number 4, 1998, with cartoon.

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