Valery V. Starovoitov

Valery Starovoitov received the Diploma degree in mathematics from Belarusian State University, in 1977, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the V. M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in 1990. This Institute was the leading scientific centers of the USSR. He defended the Doctor of Sciences dissertation on the Application of Computing Technology and the Theoretical Foundations of Informatics from the Institute of Technical Cybernetics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, in 1999. He received the title of Full Professor, in 2003. He has been working all his life in one research organization - the United Institute of Informatics Problems (until 2002 the Institute of Technical Cybernetics), National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Since 2000, he has taught as a Full Professor of computer graphics and image processing at a number of universities in Belarus, Poland, and Kazakhstan. He is a Laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Belarus in the field of science and technology, in 2002. In the early 1990s, he was one of the organizers of the Belarusian branch of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). His current research interests include image processing and analysis, quality assessment of digital images, and results of data classification. He was a member of the IEEE.