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István Petrás
petras.istvan@gmail.com
IT specialist
(+36) 70 248 9073       1117 Budapest, Nádorliget u. 5A/614.

Profile

Experience

Profession
  • Data mining, Video analytics, security surveillance
    • Statistical modeling of events and images, Bayesian methods, stochastic processes and filters
    • Clustering, classification, machine learning
  • Time series analysis, chaotic signals
  • Robotics, mobile robots, UAV, UGV.
  • High-speed parallel image processing algorithms
  • Special data structures: multidimensional Trees, LSH
Personal skills
Flexibility, creativity, analytic thinking, team work, aesthetic sense
Project management
Hungarian and European FP6/7 R+D projects, coordination, administration, research and develop, presentation, demonstration, collaboration

Studies

  • 2005  Ph.D., Computer Science
  • 1998  Msc. Computer Science,  Universitiy of Veszprémi Egyetem
  • 1994  Bsc. Computer Science, Bánki Donát Polytechnic
Languages
  • Hungarian: mother tongue, English: fluent, German: basic
Other activities
  • Project reviewer at MAG CLC.
  • Mobility and Multimedia cluster
  • Public area Surveillance Advisory Board
Prices, Scholarships
2005, 2004, 2000  MTA-SzTAKI Institute prize; 2004 MTA-SzTAKI Publication prize; 2002 – 2005 MTA Research scholarship; 1996 – 1998 Hungarian State scholarship
Hobbies
Winter-Summer sports, excursion, classical music, books, poems, psychology,  metaphysics
Software and IT tools
  • Math and computer vision: MATLAB, OpenCV, IPP
  • High-level languages: C++, Actionscript (FLASH), Javascript, .NET, Pascal, Java
  • Web related: HTML, AJAX, PHP, XML
  • Data base: mySql
  • Low level: Intel Assembly, DSP, FPGA, CAN bus
  • Operating systems: Windows/Unix
  • Other: Archicad, Autocad
  • Office: MS Office
R+D projects
MTA-SZTAKI
  • 2008    JUMAS FP7 project
  • 2006 „Life like Object detection for Collision avoidance Using Spatiotemporal image processing” (LOCUST) IST 2001-38097. Visual collision avoidance system into cars.
  • 2004 „Sensing Computers and Telepresence” (TELE-SENSE) 2/035 NKFP 2001. Mobile remote sensing system.
  • 2002 „ Dynamic image Coding and Processing with Tera-Speed CNN Visual Microprocessor” (DICTAM), ESPIRIT.
International team work
  • USA; Sweden – system integration (VOLVO); Belgium - research; Spain, England - EU FP6 project;
Teaching – Research – Collaboration
  • 2000-2001    Univ. of Berkeley, Cal. – teaching assistant
  • 1998-2008    MTA-SZTAKI - researcher
  • 2005-2006    Pázmány P. Cath. Univ. - teacher
  • 2002 May    Leuven Cath. Univ.– visiting sholar
  • 2005-2008 „Multimedia Understanding through Seman-tics, Computation and Learning, Network of Excellence, EC Sixth Framework Program, FP6-507752” (MUSCLE), European research collaboration
Publication and Presentation
  • 2008    INTERSEC Dubai – security surveillance  exhibition
  • 2007 IBC, Amsterdam – multimedia and broadcasting exhibi-tion
  • 2007 - I. Petrás, Z. Szlávik, L. Kovács, et. al.: Flexible Test-bed for Unusual Behavior Detection. CIVR 2007
  • 2006 I. Petrás, M. Gilli "Complex dynamics in one-dimensional CNNs", CTA special issue, vol. 34, pp 3-20