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Shahram Shirani, Ph.D. , P.Eng.
Senior Member of IEEE

Professor

L. R. Wilson/Bell Canada Chair in Data Communications  


 

Research

 

I am part of Multimedia Signal Processing Lab which is part of the Signal, Image & Video Processing research thrust in ECE.

My areas of research are:

§   Computer Vision

§   Biomedical image processing

§   Multimedia Computing Systems

§   Multimedia Communication Networks

§   Signal Compression for Multimedia Communications

§   Multimedia Data Indexing and Retrieval

§   Multimedia Hardware Architectures

§   Multimedia Communication Standards

§   Visual Communications

§   Image and Video Processing

§   VLSI Architectures for Real-Time Signal and Image Processing

§   Ultrasonic Imaging

 

I was a member of editorial board and associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and a member of editorial board and associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.

 

Background

 

B.S., Electrical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, 1989.

M.Sc., Biomedical Engineering (with honor), Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 1994.

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2000.

 

Selected Publications

 

 

Courses

Image Processing, COMP 4TN4

Computer Organization, COE3DR4

Multimedia Communications ECE728

3D Image Processing and Computer Vision

Engineering Design EE4OI6

Affiliations

 

 

Contact Info

 

address:

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
ITB A320
McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1

phone:

Phone: (905)-525-9140 ext. 27943
Fax: (905)-521-2922 

e-mail:

shirani at mcmaster.ca