Murat Kunt - Biography#

Murat Kunt is a Swiss scientist and known for his research and teaching in the general area of digital signal processing, and in particular image and video processing. He is the author of more than 240 publications, 15 books and 16 patents. He has played a pioneering role in digital image and video compression. Among the 75 doctoral students he supervised, 20 are now university professors.

In 1978, Kunt created the first scientific journal on signal processing, entitled “Signal Processing”, and served as its editor-in-chief till 2006. In parallel with the journal, he founded the “European Association for Signal Processing” (EURASIP). In 2006, he created the new journal “Signal, Image and Video Processing” as its editor-in-chief till 2013.

He has served as a chairman and/or a member of the scientific committees of several international conferences and on the editorial boards of three international journals: “Proceedings of the IEEE”, “Pattern Recognition Letters” and “Signal Processing”, the journal of EURASIP. He was the co-chairman of the first European conference on signal processing conference entitled “European Conference on Signal Processing” (EUSIPCO) held in Lausanne in 1980 and served as the general chairman of the “International Conference on Image Processing” (ICIP’96) held in Lausanne in 1996. He served as the president of the Swiss Association for Pattern Recognition from its creation until 1997. He has served as a consultant for governmental offices including the French General Assembly.