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Dr.
Antony T. Popov
Center
for Information Society Technologies
Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
Department
of Information Technologies
St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia
5, James Bourchier Blvd.
1164 Sofia Bulgaria
tel: (+359 2) 6256 861
fax (+359 2) 656 157, 687 180
atpopov@fmi.uni-sofia.bg
Description
of the team contribution to JPA’s of CARiMan.
The
main achievements of CIST in relation with CARiMan project activities can be
summarized as follows: The team has
the potential to participate at S1, T3, T4 JPA’s wit impact in the following
activities:
·
Design and
implementation of human-machine
interface, based on soft computing (fuzzy, neural nets, hidden
Markov models, evolutionary)
technologies as well as wireless and mobile technologies. Significant
effort will be directed in the
development
of theoretic base of phoneme recognition combining different soft
computing techniques. Appropriate tests
will be made to check the efficiency
of the methods.
·
In order to obtain good communication
physician - CARiManS for acquisition of the knowledge of experts we propose
investigation and implementation of techniques based on modern web-based
machine-to-machine XML technologies. The
idea is to combine two or more XML standards, namely
VoiceXML for representation and MathML for manipulation and computation.
The research will be also focused on the access to the information in CARiManS
using mobile devices.
·
Medical image
and signal processing and feature extraction. The aim is to develop and test
techniques for image and signal processing based on novel morphological /
wavelet techniques and pyramidal representation in order to obtain efficient
database storage and data extraction. This is absolutely necessary since medical
image data files are quite
big and more often
it is practically impossible to store and retrieve
online the information
about patient’s health
history.
Core
team participants
1.
Dr. Antony Popov
Education:
1987 MSC, 1997 PhD, both in Applied
Mathematics from Sofia University
Occupational
Status: Associate Professor at the Department of Information Technologies, Head
of the Master’s Program in Bio- & Medical Informatics.
Professional
experience: Medical informatics, Bioinformatics, Robot motion planning and
control, Soft Computing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. Dr. Popov has
lectured courses at Sofia University and Texas A&M University – USA. IEEE
Computer Society Associate. He has more than 20 publications .
2.
Dr. Roumen Nikolov
Dr.
Roumen Nikolov is Head of the Department of Information Technologies, Faculty of
Mathematics and Informatics, and Director of Centre of Information Society
Technologies, University of Sofia. He has got a PhD and MSc in Computer Science
and specialised in Artificial Intelligence and e-Learning. He had experience as
a Project Co-ordinator and Contractor in numerous national and international
projects. His research interests comprises e-Business and e-Work, e-Learning,
Innovation and Exploitation of Academic Research, Virtual Organisations,
Knowledge Management. He has been responsible for a number of research projevts
including:
·
Arcade:
Platform
for authoring and delivery of web-based courses
·
Tosca:
A study oriented towards highlighting the work situation characteristics of the
call centres and identifies the functional typology of such centres
·
EU-Infobroker:
Development of training curricula for brokers of information
·
e-Living:
A
survey describing, explaining, modelling and forecasting the changing patterns
of uptake and usage of Information Society Technologies across Europe.
·
eXPERT:
defines a light
approach for e-business and e-commerce software development
·
Management
for non-managers:
e-Learning course for non-managers
·
Bigear:
aims
to
understand and disseminate best practice in the effective exploitation of
academic research to stimulate business growth in Europe.
·
Mecitv:
aims
to develop an authoring
platform and tools to support the media artist to develop non-linear TV-stories
·
Promotor+:
aims
to create homogenous
methodology for establishing regional programmes to stimulate the creation of
profitable start-ups in 5 NAC regions.
3.
Dr. Dimo Dimov
Education:
engineering degree -Technical Univ. (TU) of Sofia (1973), applied mathematics
degree –TU of Sofia (1974), Ph.D. degree – TU of Sofia (1979).
Professional
Experience: Research, Development and Education in the Image Processing and
Recognition area: Content Based Image Retrieval, Image Databases, Text &
Graphics Recognition, Computer Document Analysis, Fault Tolerant Data Access,
Computer Graphics. Dr. Dimov is member of the Bulgarian Association of Pattern
Recognition. He is also Bulgarian representative in the South East European
Transport Research Forum (SETREF), Greece. He has more than 60 publications in
English, Russian or Bulgarian and has been responsible for more than 20
successful projects.
Occupational
Status: Associate Professor at
Pattern Recognition department, Institute of Information Technologies, Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences (1994).
Teaching:
Pattern recognition course at Department of Information Technologies -
University of Sofia.
4.
Dr. Georgi Gluhchev
Education:
Master’s degree
from the Faculty of mathematics at the University of Sofia – 1968;
Ph.D. in mathematics from Moscow State University – 1980
Current position:
Associate
Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Information Technologies of the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department of Image Processing and
Pattern Recognition.
Experience:
More than 30
years in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition in the following areas:
medical images, biological microobjects, handwriting
analysis, face recognition, robot vision
Publications:
3 monographs, 1
handbook, more than 140 papers and conference presentations.
5.
Svetla Boycheva
Education:
1994 - M.Sc. in Mathematics Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics,
Sofia University ; 1999 – 2002 Ph.D.
student in Artificial Intelligence, PhD thesis “Refinement operators in
Inductive Logic Programming”.
Occupational
Status: Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Technologies.
Professional
experience: Functional and Logic programming, Artificial Intelligence, Machine
Learning, Computers in Education.
6.
Trayan Iliev
Education:
1997 MSc in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)
from Sofia University ”St. Kliment Ohridski”.
Occupational
Status: Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Technologies.
Professional
experience: Object-oriented Technology, Multi-agent Architectures for
Distributed Computing, Adaptive Intelligent Agents and Multi-agent Interaction,
Interface Agents and User Modelling, DSP and NNs for Speech Recognition,
Case-Based Reasoning. Participation art research project:
January 2001-August 2001 in Saarbrucken, Germany – Joint research
project with the University of Saarland: “Subword
Unit Modeling and Trajectory Based Speech Recognition”
7.
Sergey
Varbanov
Sergey
Varbanov is a scientific researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Department of
the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics since 1981 and lecturer in Neural
Networks and genetic Algorithms at the Department of Information Technologies
– Sofia University. He has been responsible for the project
AGILE
Automatic Generation of
Instructions in Languages of Eastern Europe - INCO
Copernicus Programme Project PL961104.
His research interests comprise Artificial Intelligence applications,
Neural Networks, Distributed Intelligent Systems.
8.
Peter Penev
Education:
MSC 1997 - University of
Economics, Sofia, Major Finance ; Since 1999 PhD
research on the theme: Investment Portfolio
of Pension Funds
Occupational
Status: CEO, Metagen
Bulgaria
Specializations:
1998 - Accounting, second
specialization, University of Economics – Sofia, 1999 – GAAP Seminar,
University of Delayer, USA.
Most
significant papers related to CARiMan objectives:
1.
Yanakova
M., S. Boytcheva, Focusing on Scenario
Recognition in information Extraction,
In Proc. of EACL-2003,
11th Conference
of the European Chapter of
the Association for Computational Linguistics,
12-17 April,
Budapest, Hungary, 2003 (accepted, to appear)
2.
Popov A. T., Robot motion planning and some of its applications
in medicine and biochemistry, Bulgarian notes on mechanical
engineering ISSN
1310-3946, vol. 3 , 2002
3.
Boytcheva, Sv., A. Strupchanska and G. Angelova, Processing Negation
in NL Interfaces to Knowledge Bases, Proc. of ICCS-2002, 10th
International Conference of Conceptual Structures, 14-19 July, Bulgaria, Springer-Verlag
- LNAI
2393, pp. 137-150, 2002
4.
Angelova G., S. Boytcheva, O. Kalaydjiev, S.
Trausan-Matu, P. Nakov and A. Strupchanska, Adaptivity in Web-Based CALL,
Proc. of ECAI - 2002, 15th
European Conference of Artificial Intelligence,
21-26 July 2002, Lyon, France,
pp. 445-449,
2002
5.
Boytcheva, Sv., O. Kalaydjiev, A. Strupchanska, G. Angelova, Between
Language Correctness and Domain Knowledge in CALL, Proc. of RANLP-2001,
Eoroconference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Bulgaria, pp.
40-46, 2001
6.
Angelova, G., A. Nenkova, S. Boycheva and T. Nikolov, Conceptual
Graphs as a Knowledge Representation Core in a Complex Language Learning
Environment, Proc. ICCS-2000, 8th International Conference of
Conceptual Structures, Darmstadt, Germany, August 2000, Shaker Verlag, pp.
45-58, 2000.
7.
Baeg S., S. Batman
E.R.Dougherty, V.G.Kamat, N.Kehtarnavaz, S.Kim, A.T. Popov,
K.Sivakumar, R. Shah, Unsupervised
morphological granulometric texture segmentation
of digital mammograms, Journal
of Electronic Imaging , vol. 8 (1), pp.
65-75, 1999.
-
Popov A.T., H. T. Nguyen, L. K.
Reznik, An application of fuzzy
mathematical morphology to interval - valued knowledge representation: A remark,
Reliable Computing, 4 (3), pp. 283 - 290, 1998.
-
Varbanov S., T. Zlatkov, GLAU
1.0 - A Production Rules System For Glaucomas Diagnosis, Artificial
Intelligence and Humanities, ed. V. Brimkov, UNESCO-BAS Cooperation Programme,
Sofia, 1996, pp. 160-166.
-
Atanassov K., G. Gluhchev, S.
Hadjitodorov, A. Shanon, V. Vassilev, Generalized Nets in Pattern
recognition, KvB, Monograph no. 6, Visual Concepts Pty, Ltd., Australia,
2003
-
Gluhchev G. Y., Random and
systematic errors evaluation in radiation therapy, MED2002,
no. 344, Portugal, 2002, p.6
-
Gluhchev. G.,
The magnitude of treatment field set-up parameter correction in
radiation therap”, Radiother. Oncol. Vol. 48,1998, pp.79-82
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