Biography

Dr. Artusi new position with a new website will be soon announced. Prior to that Dr. Artusi has a Ramon y Cajal Fellow at the University of Girona (Spain) with the Departament d´Informatica I Matemática Aplicada. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the Vienna University of Technology, in Computer Graphics, where he worked as a research associate in the Computer Graphics group from 2000-2005. He obtained his Msc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Mialno (Italy), in collaboration with the Italian National Council of Research (CNR) and the Hewlet Packard research laboratory of Barcelona (Spain).
Artusi has been also an ERCIM Research fellow in the 2007 at the Hungarian National Council of Research (SZTAKI). Prior to this, he has been Assistant Professor at Intercollege (now University of Nicosia) in Cyprus (2005 – 2006), then Research fellow at Warwick Digital Laboratory, University of Warwick in UK (2007 – 2009) and Researcher at the Cyprus Institute in Cyprus (2009 – 2012). Dr. Artusi has been receiving several awards and prizes such as the prestigious BSI Emerging Standards Maker Award released by the British Standard Institute, for his work on JPEGXT. He has also received the prestigious Ramon y Cajal accademic fellowship, the 1st Prize at the International Cyprus Enterpreneurship Competition CyEC, with a business idea on a novel High Dynamic Range display technology and the ERCIM Research fellowship in the 2007.
He is member of the MPEG and JPEG standards committees' (WG11 and WG1 respectively), as well as member of the IST/37, Coding of picture, audio, multimedia and hypermedia information, committee. He is the co-editor of Parts 2, 4, 5 and 7 of the new standard ISO/IEC-18477 JPEGXT for high bit depth still images. He is technology advisor for RISE Teaming project , and co-founder (ex-director) of goHDR spin-off of the Warwick University.
He is associated editor with the Journal of Graphics Tools (CRC Press) and the Journal of the Institute of Industrial Applications Engineers, board committe member of the HDRi cost-I1005 action, member of International programme committe’s and reviewer for major International conferences and journals. In the past he has also been member of the Extranet Forum for the European Defence Agency (EDA).
Artusi's main research interests are in the areas of High Dynamic Range Imaging, Image Processing applied on Computer Graphics and Colour Science. He is the author of the CRC Press book with the title “Image Content Retargeting: Maintaining Color, Tone, and Spatial Consistency” and co-author of the CRC Press book with the title “Advanced High Dynamic Range Imaging: Theory and Practice”, author or the co-author of more than 40 research publications, and holds 3 patents.