Nikolay N. Ponomarenko

Professional biography sketch

Research interests

• Image and video compression (DCT based compression, fractal based compression, using partition schemes, multichannel image compression, noisy image compression)
  
• Image and video denoising (nonlinear robust denoising, local adaptive filters, DCT based denoising, multichannel image denoising, automatic synthesis of filters for a given quality criterion)
  
• Image analysis (quality assessment, similarity measures, inforamtivity measures, human visual system, noise parameters estimation, target detection)
• Image reconstruction and inpainting (digital elevation map reconstruction, reconstruction of images with lost part of data)
  
• Methods of data compression
  
• The game theory
  
• Artificial intelligence
  
• Methods of education
  

Publications

Downloads and links

• TID2008 - image database for evaluation of full-reference image visual quality assessment metrics. (last changed: 2010-02-22)
  
• Self-similarity full-reference metric of image visual quality (last changed: 2011-02-05)
  
• ADCT page - our the best (in ratio-distortion sence) image coder (last changed: 2008-11-16)
  
• AGU and AGU-MHV page - High Quality DCT based image coder (last changed: 2008-05-02)
  
• PSNR-HVS-M page - a new quality assessment metric (last changed: 2009-08-15)
  
• PSNR-HMA page - a modification of PSNR-HVS-M for color images and for tanking into account mean shift and contrast change (last changed: 2011-08-27)
  
• Test set of 512x512 greyscale images (Baboon, Barbara, Goldhill, Lenna, Patterns, Peppers)
  

• Tampere International Center for Signal Processing
  
• Institute of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology
  
• Department of Signal Reception, Transmitting and Processing, National Aerospace University of Ukraine
  

Hobbies

• Family
  
• Computer games development
  
• Science fiction (reading, writing)
  
• Renju (I was the champion of Ukraine in this logical game)
  
• Turn based strategy games
  
• Algorithms collecting
  
• Programming languages I know (20 years of everyday practice): Delphi/Pascal (main and favorite), C/C++, Assemblers (several ones), Matlab, Php5, Python, Perl, HTML (CSS, Java script), Java, Flash Macromedia (Action Script), ENVI (RSI), DOS/Windows bat-files, Prolog, Lisp, Ada, Modula 2, Fortran, Basic.
  
  

Address and contact information

• E-mails: nikolay{}ponomarenko.info (main), uagames{}mail.ru (second)
  
• Homepage: http://ponomarenko.info
  
• Tel +38 057 7884352
  
• Fax +38 057 3151186
  
• Mobile phone +38 050 6416117
  
• Skype: nikpon
  
• National Aerospace University, Department N504 of Signal Reception, Transmitting and Processing, 17 Chkalova Street, 61070, Kharkov, Ukraine