Vladimir Katkovnik

Date and place of birth: February 17 1937, Leningrad, USSR  

    Nationality: Russia 

    Current address: Parkanonkatu 4D 52 Tampere, Finland  

     Education and degrees awarded  

    1974 D.Sc. (Doctor of Sc.) - Engineering Cybernetics (Automatic Control of Engineering Systems), 

Leningrad, Polytechnic Institute, USSR, Leningrad, 1974. Thesis: "Linear estimation and stochastic 

approximation methods". 

     1967 Ph.D. (Candidate of Sc.) - Engineering Cybernetics, Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, USSR, 

Leningrad, 1964. 

     Thesis: "Multivariable digital control". 

     1960 M. Sc.-Mechanics and Control (Mechanics and Control Processes Department), Leningrad 

Polytechnic Institute, USSR, Leningrad, 1960. Thesis: "Dynamics of extremum adaptive control 

systems". 

    Current position: 

    Senior Researcher, Tampere University  

    Secondary occupation  

    Co-founder, "Noiseless Imaging Oy" (Tampere University of Technology spinoff company), since 

2011  

    Previous work experience  

    2003-present, Senior Researcher, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Tampere, Finland 

    2000-2003, Professor, Kwangju Institute Science and Technology (K-JIST), Kwangju, Republic of 

Korea 

    1991-1999, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria 

    1976-1991, Professor, Department of Mechanics and Control Processes, Leningrad Polytechnic 

Institute (LPI) 

    1966-1976, Associate Professor, as above, 1961-1966, Assistant, as above. 

    Research funding  

During last 10 years Two Research Grants from Academy of Sciences of Finland ('Interfero' (2011-

2014), `Sparse' (2015-2019); Private foundations ( `CIWIL', Teknologiateollisuuden 100-vuotissäätiö 

& Jane and Aatos Erkon Säätiö, 2018 - 2021) 

    Leadership in research work:  

    Major research interests and scientific achievements have been in the following areas: Filtering, 

Smoothing of Data and Image/Signal Processing: Parametric and Nonparametric Algorithms, Robust 

Nonlinear Estimates, Nonstationary Processes, Time-Frequency Analysis . Stochastic Optimization: 

Recursive Algorithms for Optimization of Multivariate Regressions, Optimization and Smoothing of 

Data, Stochastic Approximation, Constrained Optimization. Automatic Control: Linear Optimal 

Multivariable Stochastic Control, Digital Control, Adaptive Control and Identification. Mathematical 

Models of Flexible Manufacturing Systems: Stochastic Modelling, Production Systems, Reliability 

Systems. 

    Merits in teaching and pedagogical competence  

    More than 50 years teaching experience (LPI, UNISA, K-JIST, TUT);  

    Invited talks at universities and companies worldwide. Talks at major signal processing 

conferences (ICIP, EUSIPCO, ICASSP, SPIE Electronic Imaging, DSP ).  

    Supervision: 23 Ph.D. students and 43 Master's students.  

    Recently, Four Doctoral Students Co-Supervised: A. Foi (2007), D. Paliy (2007), A. Danielyan 

(2013), M. Kulya (2021). 

    Publications  

    Eight books 

    Over 200 refereed journal articles in highly ranked international Journals: IEEE Transactions on 

Signal Processing and Image Processing , Optika, Optics Express, Pattern Recognition, etc. Over 300 

papers in referred conference proceedings. 

    Scientific and societal impact of the applicant's own research (from Google Scholar)  

    Number of citations: 19540, h0-index: 50, h10-index 130. 

    Ten selected publications  

    1. Dabov, K.; Foi, A.; Katkovnik, V.; Egiazarian, K. (2007): Image Denoising by Sparse 3-D Transform-

Domain Collaborative Filtering, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 16, 8, 2080 - 2095  

    2. Foi, A.; Katkovnik, V.; Egiazarian, K. (2007): Pointwise Shape-Adaptive DCT for High-Quality 

Denoising and Deblocking of Grayscale and Color Images, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 16, 5, 

1395 - 1411  

    3. A Danielyan, V Katkovnik, K. Egiazarian (2012): BM3D frames and variational image deblurring, 

IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 21 (4), 1715-1728  

    4. Katkovnik, V.; Foi, A.; Egiazarian, K.; Astola,J. (2010): From Local Kernel to Nonlocal Multiple-

Model Image Denoising, Intern. Journal of Computer Vision, 86, 1, 1-32  

    5. Foi, A.; Trimeche, M.; Katkovnik, V.; Egiazarian, K. (2008): "Practical Poissonian-Gaussian noise 

modeling and fitting for single-image raw-data", IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 17,10,1737-1754  

  6. V. Katkovnik, J. Astola (2002): Compressive sensing computational ghost imaging, Journal JOSA, 

29, 1556-1567 

    7. V. Katkovnik, K. Egiazarian, J. Astola (2008): Adaptive window size image de-noising based on 

intersection of confidence intervals (ICI) rule, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision 16 (3), 

223-235 

    8. V. Katkovnik, K. Egiazarian, J. Astola (2006): Local approximation techniques in signal and image 

processing (book), SPIE 

    9. V. Katkovnik (1999): A new method for varying adaptive bandwidth selection, IEEE Transactions 

on signal processing 47 (9), 2567-2571 

    10. SRM Rostami, S. Pinilla, I. Shevkunov, V. Katkovnik, K. Egiazarian (2021): Power-balanced 

hybrid optics boosted design for achromatic extended depth-of-field imaging via optimized mixed 

OTF, Applied Optics 60 (30), 9365-9378