Anastasios (Tas) Venetsanopoulos
Professor
Dean Emeritus, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
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We regret to announce that Dean Emeritus Anastasios (Tas) Venetsanopoulos
passed away on November 17, 2014. Read the tribute in his memory, at
http://www.ece.utoronto.ca/news/venetsanopoulos-tribute/.
Anastasios Venetsanopoulos received the Bachelors of Electrical and Mechanical
Engineering degree from the National Technical University of Athens
(NTU), Greece, in 1965, and the M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in
Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 1966, 1968 and 1969
respectively. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering of the University of Toronto in September 1968 as a
Lecturer and he was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1970,
Associate Professor in 1973, and Professor in 1981. Prof. A.N.
Venetsanopoulos has served as Chair of the Communications Group and
Associate Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering. Between
July 1997 – June 2001, he was Associate Chair: Graduate Studies
of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and was
Acting Chair during the spring term of 1998-99. In 1999 a Chair in
Multimedia was established in the ECE Department, made possible by a
donation of $1.25M from Bell Canada, matched with $1M of university
funds. Prof. A.N. Venetsanopoulos served in this position as
Inaugural Chairholder between 1999 and 2004 and two additional
Assistant Professors were hired in the same area. Between 2001 –
2006 he served as the 12th Dean of the Faculty of Applied
Science and Engineering of the University of Toronto.
Prof. A.N. Venetsanopoulos was on research leave at the Imperial College of
Science and Technology, the National Technical University of Athens,
the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the University of Florence
and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and has also served as
Adjunct Professor at Concordia University. He has served as lecturer
in 138 short courses to industry and continuing education programs
and as Consultant to numerous organizations; he is a contributor to
thirty-five (35) books, a co-author of Nonlinear Filters in
Image Processing: Principles Applications (ISBN-0-7923-9049-0),
and Artificial Neural Networks: Learning Algorithms,
Performance Evaluation and Applications (ISBN-0-7923-9297-3), Fuzzy
Reasoning in Information Decision and Control systems
(ISBN-0-77293-2643-1) and Color Image Processing and
Applications (ISBN-3-540-66953-1), and has published over 800
papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings on digital
signal and image processing and digital communications.
Prof. Venetsanopoulos has served as Chair on numerous boards, councils and
technical conference committees of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers (IEEE), such as the Toronto Section (1977-1979)
and the IEEE Central Canada Council (1980-1982); he was President of
the Canadian Society for Electrical Engineering and Vice President of
the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) (1983-1986). He was a
Guest Editor or Associate Editor for several IEEE journals and the
Editor of the Canadian Electrical Engineering Journal
(1981-1983). He is a member of the IEEE Communications, Circuits and
Systems, Computer, and Signal Processing Societies of IEEE, as well
as a member of Sigma Xi, the Technical Chamber of Greece, the
European Association of Signal Processing, the Association of
Professional Engineers of Ontario (APEO) and Greece. He was elected
as a Fellow of the IEEE “for contributions to digital signal
and image processing”, he is also a Fellow of the EIC, and was
awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the National Technical University
of Athens, in October 1994. In October 1996 he was awarded the
“Excellence in Innovation Award” of the
Information Technology Research Centre of Ontario and Royal Bank of
Canada, “for innovative work in color image processing and its
industrial applications”. In November 2003 he was the
Recipient of the “Millennium Medal of IEEE”. In
April 2001 he became a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of
Engineering. In 2003 he was the recipient of the highest
award of the Canadian IEEE, the MacNaughton Award and in 2003
he served as the Chair of the Council of Deans of Engineering of the
Province of Ontario (CODE). In 2006 he was selected as the joint
recipient of the 2003 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
Outstanding Paper Award.
Publication List:
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Research Interests
- Multimedia Systems (image compression, database retrieval)
- Digital Signal/Image Processing (multichannel image processing, nonlinear, adaptive and M-D filtering)
- Digital Communications (image transmission, image compression)
- Neural Networks and Fuzzy Reasoning in Signal/Image Processing
Current funding sources
- Natural Sciences and Research Council of Canada (NSERC), University of Toronto.
Graduate students (full-time)
- Juwei Lu, Jie Wang, Karthik Kanan, Azadeh Kushki, Haiping Lu, Hamid Ghaoaki.
Extended CV:
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Contact Information
Email: anv@dsp.toronto.edu
Tel: (416) 978-8670
Fax: (416) 978-4425
Office: BA4142
You may also contact Prof. Anastasios (Tas) N. Venetsanopoulos by mail at the following address:
Prof. Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos
Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Toronto
10 King's College Road
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5S 3G4