Prof. Dr.-Ing. Habil. Bogdan IONESCU
Coordinator of the Multimedia Lab, Center for Advanced Research on New Materials, Products and Innovative Processes, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest.
Coordinator of the Video Processing Group, The Image Processing and Analysis Lab, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest.
Research interests: multimedia/video/image processing and analysis - multimedia content-based retrieval - machine learning for multimedia - multimedia benchmarking and evaluation - multimedia applications (e.g., video surveillance, lifelog, social media, medicine).
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ERASMUS mobilities:
2020:
Aron Latis, University of Trento, Italy;
Cătălin Laurențiu Vișan, University of Trento, Italy.
2019:
Oana Florentina Dolea, NOVA School of Science and Technology, University of Lisbon, Portugal;
Ștefan Gabriel Costea, NOVA School of Science and Technology, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
2018:
Daniela Zaharia, CentraleSupelec - Université Paris-Sud, France;
Paula Avasiloaie, CentraleSupelec - Université Paris-Sud, France.
B.S. projects:
2018 - 2019:
Andrei Bărbulescu, "Event-based Video Surveillance", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Alexandru Ciuciu, "Lip Reading System for Hearing Impairment Support", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Cristina Dăscălescu, "Automatic Car License Plate Recognition System", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Mihai Frunză, "Epileptic Seizure Detection from EEG Signals", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania (co-supervisor Alexandra Tăuțan);
Vlad Grigore, "Content-based Retrieval of Social Media Information", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Cătălin Iordache, "Human-Computer Interaction for Multimedia Information", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Alexandru Ozunu, "Person Reidentification in Social Media", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Mihai Petcu, "Person Re-Identification", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Cristian Stanciu, "Human Emotion Analysis via Visual Information", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Alexandra Andrei, "Parkinson Detection System", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania (co-supervisor Alexandra Tăuțan);
Cristian Pîrlea, "Sleep Apnea Detection System", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania (co-supervisor Alexandra Tăuțan).
2017 - 2018:
Andreea Munteanu, "Automated Lip Reading using Deep Learning", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Marian Adam, "Embedded Video Surveillance System", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Cristian Cioflan, "End to End Lip Reading System", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Gabriel Mirică, "Person Reidentification using Deep Learning", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Alexandru Genescu, "Human Behavior Analysis System", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Filip Voicu, "Crowd Behavior Analysis System", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Cosmin Papadopol, "Speech Analysis using Visual Information", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Cosmin Miu, "Dissimulated Behavior Analysis using Multimodal Cameras", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
George Moțoiu, "Speech Interpretation from Video Footage", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Gabriel Pascu, "Crowd Detection in Video Surveillance", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Bogdan Savu, "Multimedia Content-based Retrieval from Social Media", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania.
2016 - 2017:
Roxana Vasile: "Video Surveillance Content-based Retrieval”, CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Mihaela Radu, "Heart Rate Estimation with Kinect", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Bogdan Guliman, "Traffic Sign Recognition", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Sebastian Moraru, "Unattended Luggage Detection for Video Surveillance", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Mihai Fintoiu, "Intelligent Drone System with Computer Vision Capabilities", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania.
2015 - 2016:
Tiberiu Petre, "Kinect-based Systems", LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania.
2014 - 2015:
Gabriel Petrescu, "Intelligent Video Browsing Interfaces", LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania.
2008 - 2009:
Alexandru Marin, "Investigations on Applying Stein’s Principle for SENSE pMRI Reconstruction in the Wavelet Domain", LI, University Paris-Est, “Gaspard Monge” Institute, France, LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Cosmin Ion-Petrescu, "Motion Estimation Techniques in Video Indexing", LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania.
2007 - 2008:
Alexandra Păcureanu, “Symbolic Description of the Action Content in Animated Movies”, LISTIC, Polytech'Savoie, Annecy, France, LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania.
M.S. projects:
2018 - 2019:
Gabriela Dinu, "Automatic Assessment of Image Aesthetics", L2S Lab, Centrale Supelec, Paris, France, and CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania (Erasmus mobility);
Ilinca Nan, "Smart Traffic Lighting System", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Bogdan Stanciu, "3D Reconstruction System with Automatic Human Behaviour Analysis", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Marian Negacevschi, "Virtual Currency Trends Prediction", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania (co-supervisor Ionuț Mironică);
Roxana Nițu, "Neural Network-based Video Prediction”, L2S Lab, Centrale Supelec, Paris, France, and CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania (Erasmus mobility);
Andra Zanfir, "Facial Recognition Authentication System", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania (co-supervisor Ionuț Mironică).
2016 - 2017:
Gabriel Petrescu, "Multimedia Browsing Systems for Interactive Tables", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Victor Rădulescu, "Augmented Reality for Smart Cities", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Mihail Rădulescu, "Games with Purpose for City Park Mapping", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Cristina Mirea, "Intelligent Monitoring System for Marathons”, CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania (co-supervisor Ionuț Mironică);
Alexandru Toma, "Automatic Recognition of Plant Species", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Alexandra Popescu, "Automatic Fingerprint Recognition", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Alina Bănică, "Reinforced Learning for Autonomous Systems", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania.
2015 - 2016
Ciprian Ionașcu, "Human Action Recognition in Video Surveillance", LISTIC, Polytech Annecy-Chambery, Annecy, France, CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania (Erasmus mobility);
Liviu Ștefan, "Advanced Face Recognition and Tracking", LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania (co-supervisor Ionuț Mironică).
2014 - 2015:
Tiberiu Loncea, "Human-Computer Interaction with Depth Cameras", LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania.
2013 - 2014:
Bogdan Boteanu, "Enforcing Diversity in Photo Retrieval", LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Andrei Filip, "Large-Scale Concept Detection in Videos", LISTIC, Polytech'Savoie, Annecy, France, LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania (Erasmus mobility);
Mădălina Tița, "Mining Events from Social Media using Visual Content, Contextual Information and Event Saliency Models", MultiMedia Signal Processing and Understanding Lab, University of Trento, Italy, LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Mihai Pușcaș, "Logo/Commercial Detection", MHUG group, University of Trento, Italy, LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Vlad Ruxandu, "A Study on Holographic Compression Techniques", Multimedia Group, Télécom ParisTech, France, LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania (Erasmus mobility);
Ioan Chera, "Multimedia Browsing Interfaces", LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania.
2012 - 2013:
Anamaria - Mihaela Calotă, "Automatic Multimedia Categorization", LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Irina-Emilia Nicolae, "Versatile Layered Video Coding based on Scalable Distributed Video Coding”, Multimedia Group, Télécom ParisTech, France, LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Corina Macovei, "Multilateral Layered Video Coding Based on Distributed Video Coding and Scalable Distributed Video Coding", Multimedia Group, Télécom ParisTech, France, LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Andrei Purică, "View Synthesis Techniques in Multiview Video plus Depth Coding", Multimedia Group, Télécom ParisTech, France, LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Ionuț Duță, "Detection and Localization of Objects in Images", MHUG group, University of Trento, Italy, LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania.
2011 - 2012:
Bogdan Alecu, "Robust Background Substraction", LISTIC, Polytech Annecy-Chambery, Annecy, France, Eboo Solutions, France, LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania (Erasmus mobility);
Iulia Cazan, "Video Genre Classification", LISTIC, Polytech Annecy-Chambery, Annecy, France, LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania (Erasmus mobility);
Livia Anca Radu, "Crawling Media for Tagging Locations on Large Scale", DISI, University of Trento, Italy, LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania.
2010 - 2011:
Vlad Dima, "A 3D System for Navigating through Multimedia Databases", LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
George Zaharia, "Video Quality Assessment", LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania.
2009 - 2010:
Diana Grama, "People Detection using Contour Information in Video Surveillance Videos", LAPI, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania.
PhD students:
2018 - 2021:
Andrei Jitaru, "Automatic Lip Reading", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Alexandra Tăuțan, "Automatic Detection and Analysis of Neurodegenerative Diseases", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania;
Gabriel Petrescu, "Virtual Reality-based Human-Computer Interaction”, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania.
2016 - 2019:
Liviu Ștefan, "Deep Learning for Multimedia Content Classification", University "Politehnica" of Bucharest; in cooperation with University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland in Sierre, Switzerland;
Mihai Dogariu, "Unsupervised Deep Learning for Multimedia Content Classification”, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest; in cooperation with CEA LIST, Paris, and École Centrale de Lyon, Lyon, France;
Șeila Abdulamit, "Big Multimedia Social Data Processing and Analysis”, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania.
2015 - 2018:
Mihai Gabriel Constantin, "Automatic Analysis of the Visual Impact of Multimedia Data", University "Politehnica" of Bucharest; in cooperation with Technicolor, France.
2014 - 2018:
Bogdan Boteanu, "Machine Learning for Information Retrieval", University "Politehnica" of Bucharest; in cooperation with Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.
2013 - 2017:
Andrei Purică, "Semantic Video Coding", co-tutelle thesis University "Politehnica" of Bucharest - Telecom ParisTech, France;
Ionuț Duță, "Crossmedia Knowledge Extraction", University of Trento, Italy; in cooperation with University "Politehnica" of Bucharest.
2012 - 2015:
Cătălin Mitrea, "Content-based Multimedia Retrieval using Cellular Neural Networks", University "Politehnica" of Bucharest; in cooperation with Queen Mary University of London, UK;
Anca-Livia Radu, "Large Scale Media Analysis via Media Fusion and Crowdsourcing", University "Politehnica" of Bucharest; in cooperation with University of Trento, Italy.
Postdoc students:
2017 - 2018:
Cătălin Mitrea, "Real-time IP Camera-based Intelligent Video Surveillance Security System with DROP Retrieval", CAMPUS, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest.
2014 - 2015:
Ionuț Mironică, "Large Scale Content-Based Search of Multimedia Information", University "Politehnica" of Bucharest.