Biography

 Al Bovik holds the Keys and Joan Curry/Cullen Trust Endowed Chair at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and is Director of the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE). During the Spring of 1992, he held a visiting position in the Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is well known as the inventor or co-inventor of Order Statistic Filters; the Gabor Texture Model; the Image Modulation Model; the Structural Similarity (SSIM) and Visual Information Fidelity (VIF) Indices for image quality assessment, the MOtion-based Video Integrity Evaluation (MOVIE) index for video quality assessment, the LIVE Image and Video Quality Databases, and SIVA - the Signal, Image and Video Audiovisual Demonstration Gallery (that is used by more than 600 sites around the world), as well as many other contributions to the fields of image and video processing, computational vision, digital microscopy, and modeling of biological visual perception. He has published over 500 technical articles in these areas and holds two U.S. patents. He is also the author of The Handbook of Image and Video Processing, (Second Edition, Academic Press, 2005), Modern Image Quality Assessment (Morgan & Claypool, 2006), The Essential Guide to Image Processing (Academic Press, 2008), and The Essential Guide to Video Processing (Academic Press, 2008).

Dr. Bovik has received a number of major awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, including: the Education Award (2008); the Technical Achievement Award (2005), the Distinguished Lecturer Award (2000); and the Meritorious Service Award (1998). He is also a recipient of the Hocott Award for Distinguished Engineering Research from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin (2008), the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (2008), the IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000) and two journal paper awards from the international Pattern Recognition Society (1988 and 1993). He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), and a Fellow of the Society of Photo-Optical and Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).

He has been involved in numerous professional society activities, including: Board of Governors, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 1996-1998; Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 1996-2002; Editorial Board, The Proceedings of the IEEE, 1998-2004; Senior Editorial Board, IEEE Journal on Special Topics in Signal Processing, 2005-present; Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 1993-1995; Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 1989-1993; Editorial Board, Pattern Recognition, 1988-present; Series Editor for Image, Video, and Multimedia Processing, Morgan and Claypool Publishing Company, 2003-present; and Founding General Chairman, First IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, held in Austin, Texas, in November, 1994.

Dr. Bovik is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas and is a frequent consultant to legal, industrial and academic institutions.