Russell Mersereau - Regents Professor

Dr. Russell M. Mersereau received the S.B. and S.M. degrees in 1969 and the Sc.D. degree in 1973 from M.I.T. He has served on the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the IEEE and as Associate Editor for Signal Processing of the IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. He is also an IEEE Fellow. He has published extensively and is the co-author of Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing. He is the co-recipient of the 1976 Browder J. Thompson Memorial Prize of the IEEE for the best technical paper, a recipient of the 1977 Research Unit Award of the Southeastern Section of the ASEE, and two departmental teaching awards. Most recently, Prof. Mersereau was awarded the 1990 Society Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

Professor Mersereau's current research interests are in the development of algorithms for the enhancement, modeling, and coding of computerized images including video images and computer vision images. In the past this research has been directed to problems of digital filter design, the reconstruction and estimation of distorted signals from partial information of those signals, computer image processing, computer image coding, the effect of image coders on human perception of images, and the applications of digital signal processing methods in speech processing, digital communications, and pattern recognition.