Luciano Alparone

Biography

Luciano Alparone was born in Florence in 1960. He obtained his degree in Electronic Engineering at the University of Florence in 1985 and the Doctor of Research in 1990. Since April 1992 he has been a member of the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (former Department of Electronic Engineering), University of Florence as a researcher framed in the K03X sector. Since 1996 he has held the Electrical Communication Communication Course for Telecommunication Engineering. In July 2000 he was Associate Professor (K03X - Telecommunications) and since November 2002 he has served in this role. In 1989 he was a fellow at the "Signal Processing Division" at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK. During spring 2000 and summer 2001 it was " It holds a patent for a progressive transmission of images based on pyramid structures. He was the winner of the 2004 Best Product Award for IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters magazine.

Research Interest

His main research interests are: compression of still images and video, especially lossless and near-lossless compression for medical and remote sensing applications, multiresolution image analysis and processing, nonlinear filtering, multisensor data fusion and processing and analysis of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) date.