1. Alan Conrad Bovik was born on June 25,1958 and is an American engineer, vision scientist, and educator.
11 Facts About Alan Bovik
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Alan Bovik is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Cockrell Family Regents Endowed Chair in the Cockrell School of Engineering and is Director of the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering.
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Alan Bovik is a faculty member in the UT-Austin Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Machine Learning Laboratory, the Institute for Neuroscience, and the Wireless Networking and Communications Group.
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Alan Bovik has made numerous fundamental contributions to the fields of digital photography, digital television, digital image processing, digital video processing, digital cinema, and computational visual perception.
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Alan Bovik is particularly well known for his work on low-level vision, natural scene modeling, image quality, and video quality.
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Alan Bovik has published more than 1000 technical articles, books, and patents in these areas.
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Alan Bovik is one of the most highly cited engineers in the world according to the Web of Science.
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Alan Bovik is an elected member of the United States National Academy of Engineering, an elected Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, an elected Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors, and an elected foreign member of Academia Europaea.
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Alan Bovik is a voting member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and was named an inaugural member of its Science and Technology Peer Group.
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Alan Bovik is credited with the development of order statistic filters, the image modulation model, computational modeling of visual texture perception, theories of foveated image processing, and for widely used and disseminated image quality and video quality computational models and measurement tools that are used throughout the television, cinematic, streaming video, and social media industries.
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Alan Bovik has created widely used, adopted, and cited books and online courseware, including The Handbook of Image and Video Processing, Modern Image Quality Assessment, The Essential Guide to Image Processing, and The Essential Guide to Video Processing.