Alan Bovik
American engineer (born 1958) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alan Conrad Bovik (born June 25, 1958) is an American engineer, vision scientist, and educator. He is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-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 (LIVE). He 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.
Al Bovik HonFRPS | |
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Born | (1958-06-25) June 25, 1958 (age 65) |
Alma mater | University of Illinois |
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Fields | Digital television, digital photography, image processing, vision science, video processing |
Institutions | The University of Texas at Austin |
Doctoral advisor | Thomas Huang David C. Munson |
Bovik received a Primetime Emmy Award in 2015 for his development of perception-based video quality measurement tools that are now standards in television production.[1] He also received a Technology and Engineering Emmy Award in 2021 for the “development of perceptual metrics for video encoding optimization.”[2]