Brief Biography

Updated July 2012

Peyman Milanfar is a Professor of Electrical Engineering (Currently on leave at Google.) He was Associate Dean for research and graduate studies from 2010 to 2012. He received the B.S. in EE/Mathematics from Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in EECS from MIT. Prior to UCSC, he was at SRI, and a Consulting Professor of CS at Stanford. In 2005 he founded MotionDSP , which has brought state-of-art video enhancement to market. His interests are in statistical signal, image and video processing, computational photography and vision. He is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's IVMSP Technical Committee, and its Awards Board. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Recent News

Updated January 2013

Paper Highlights

March 2013


P. Milanfar, " A Tour of Modern Image Filtering ", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine vol. 30, no. 1, January 2013, pp. 106-128
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Teaser Image C. Kim and P. Milanfar Visual Saliency in Noisy Images , Journal of Vision, vol. 13, no. 4, paper 5,
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