Slawomir Mackowiak

Sławomir Maćkowiak

(born 1972) received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Poznan University of Technology in 1997 and 2002 respectively. Currently he is an Assistant Professor at Poznan University of Technology, a member of the Chair of the Multimedia Telecommunication and Microelectronics.

Member of of Polish Society Theoretical and Applied Electrical Engineering (PTETiS). He is also a member of the Normalization Commission for Multimedia (NKP288) by the Polish Normalization Committee (PKN). Activities in Polish standardization (e.g. translation of MPEG-2/H.262 and MPEG-4 part 10 (AVC/H.264) standards), Member and secretary of "Sekcji Sygnałów, Układów i Systemów Elektronicznych Komitetu Elektroniki i Telekomunikacji Polskiej Akademii Nauk"

Employment/Education:

1999 Institut fuer Theoretische Nachrichtentechnik und Informationsverarbeitung/Universitaet Hannover: visit in Hannover/German within TEMPUS JEP project
1999 Several visits in the Institut fuer Theoretische Nachrichtentechnik und Informationsverarbeitung/Universitaet Hannover within NATO Linkage Grant HTECH.LG 941338
Since 1998 with Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Division of Multimedia Communications and Radioelectronics Digital Image Processing Group
Since 1997 PhD Student in Telecommunications from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Poznań University of Technology
1997 Master of Science in Electronics and Telecommunication - Poznań University of Technology
2002 Ph.D. "Scalable Coding of Digital Video " at Poznan University of Technology
Since 2002 Assistant Professor at Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Division of Multimedia Communications and Radioelectronics, PUT.
Since 2007 Assistant Professor at Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunication, Chair of Multimedia Telecommunications and Microelectronics, PUT.

He received several awards and grants, among other:

an Award of the Minister of the National Education for the best Ph.D. thesis of the year 2002 (2003),
a Group Award of the Minister of the National Education for research in the National Education for research in image compression (1999),
an extraordinary award from the Rector of Poznan University of Technology for preparing the didactic laboratory and a set of exercises for students (2004),
an Award of the Association for Image Processing for the best Ph.D. thesis of the year 2002 (2003),
an Award of Foundation for Supporting Radiocommunication and Multimedia Techniques Development for the best Ph.D. thesis of the year 2002 (2003),
the Second Prize of the Foundation for Supporting the Development of Radiocommunication and Multimedia Techniques in competition for "The best paper of young scientist" on the Systems and Technologies for Multimedia Telecommunication Conference (STM) 2000.

He is an author and co-author of several papers on video scalability, MPEG-2 compression and teleteaching. He has been taking part in several investigation projects, e.g.

iTVP - research and implementation for Polish Television S.A. on interactive television,
European Union projects - INVOCOM - Internet-based vocational training of communication students, engineers, and technicians, FP5 no. IST - 2000 - 26467, "Metadata for advanced scalable video coding tools" - MASCOT,
DG Edukacja i Kultura - Leonardo da Vinci - Program "Uczenie się przez całe życie" - Projekt pilotowy InCert i Train2Cert
several KBN projects.

Other activities:

Coorganizer and scientific secretary of the conference TEM'03 Telekomunikacja - Elektronika - Multimedia Konferencja techniczna nt. Media cyfrowe XXI wieku, Infosystem 2003, MTP Poznań 2003
Coorganizer of the International Workshop on Signal and Image Processing, Poznań 2004
Coorganizer of the International Conference Signals and Electronic Systems, Poznań 2004
Coorganizer of the 73 spotkanie MPEG (ITU-T VCEG SG16/Q6 i ISO/IEC MPEG JTC 1/SC29/WG11), Poznań 2005
Coorganizer and scientific secretary of the conference Nadzór Wizyjny - Nowe Technologie, Securex, Poznań 2006.
Coorganizer and Local Arrangements Chairman of the conference European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2007), Poznań 2007.

He is interested in scalability and image compression, biometrics, video surveillance.

His personal interests include collecting of miniature models of Audi roadcars, Audi Concept cars and Auto Union Pre-war cars in scale 1:43.

Room: Polanka 103 Phone: 6653890 e-mail: smack@multimedia.edu.pl

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