Professor Maria Petrou

Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Surrey
Email: M.Petrou@ee.surrey.ac.uk
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Background: Maria Petrou has been a lecturer in Astronomy at the University of Athens (1981-1983) and a Post Doctoral Research Assistant at the University of Oxford, Department of Theoretical Physics (1983-1986). She has been working on Computer Vision since 1986, initially as a Research Associate at the NERC Unit for Thematic Information Systems (NUTIS) in the Geography Department of Reading University, later as an Atlas Research Fellow of St. Hilda's College Oxford at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and since 1988 at the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering of Surrey University, initially as a lecturer subsequently as a Senior Lecturer then as a Reader and since 1998 as Professor of Image Analysis.

Research Interests: Her research interests include many topics on Image Processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, with applications in Biomedicine, Geo-science, etc. She has more than 250 publications (click here to view them in postscript format), (or here as a PDF file) (more than 80 in refereed journals) and numerous articles of journalistic nature, like book reviews and conference reports. She has co-authored a book: ``Image Processing, the fundamentals'', John Wiley publishers, ISBN 0471 99883 4 . She is chairing the IAPR Technical Committee 7 for Remote Sensing (TC7), she is the chairman of the British Machine Vision Association, and Society for Pattern Recognition (BMVA), a fellow of IEE, and member of the IEEE. She has served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and as the newsletter editor of the International Association for Pattern Recognition for 5 years (1994-98) (IAPR).