Professor Blu THIERRY

	Address	(Office):	Room 312, Ho Sin Hang Building, CUHK
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	Phone	(Office):	(852) 3943 8288
		(Lab):	(852)
	Fax		(852) 2603 5558
	Email		thierry.blu@m4x.org
	Web		www.ee.cuhk.edu.hk/ ~tblu/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Education

	1996	Ph.D.	Télécom Paris (ENST), France
	1988	“Diplôme d’ingénieur” (MEng)	Télécom Paris (ENST), France
	1986	“Diplôme d’ingénieur” (MSc)	École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

 

 

 

 

Position

• Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

 

Research Interests

• Signal processing: Real, complex wavelets and multiresolution analysis; Filter banks; Nonseparable multidimensional cases
• Approximation theory: Uniform, nonuniform splines; Interpolation, approximation error; Variational ap- proximation problems; Sparse approximation, finite rate of innovation
• Statistics: Detection and estimation; Signal/Image denoising, Stein’s Unbiased Risk Estimate; Generalized stochastic processes, fractional Brownian motions (fBm)
• Modeling: Auditory system, psychoacoustics
• Physics: Wave propagation, optics, holography
• Applications: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI); Electro-Encephalography (EEG); Biomedical imaging; Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT); TeraHertz imagin

 

Representative Publications

• Luisier F, *Blu T and Unser M. (2011) Image denoising in mixed Poisson-Gaussian noise. IEEE Transections on Image Processing 20: 696-708.
• Luisier F, Vonesch C, *Blu T and Unser M. (2010) Fast interscale wavelet denoising of Poisson corrupted images. Signal Processing 90: 415-427.
• Ramani S, *Blu T and Unser M. (2008) Monte-Carlo SURE: A Black-Box Optimization of Regularization Parameters for General Denoising Algorithms. IEEE Transections on Image Processing 17: 1540-1554.
• *Blu T, Dragotti PL, Vetterli M, Marziliano P and Coulot L. (2008) Sparse sampling of signal innovations. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 25: 31-40.
• Luisier F, *Blu T and Unser M. (2007) A new SURE approach to image denoising: Interscale orthonormal wavelet thresholding. IEEE Transections on Image Processing 16: 593-606. [IEEE Signal Processing Society’s 2009 – Young Author Best Paper Award ]
• *Blu T and Luisier F. (2007) The SURE-LET approach to image denoising. IEEE Transections on Image Processing 16: 2778-2786.
• Vetterli M, Marziliano P and *Blu T. (2002) Sampling signals with finite rate of innovation. IEEE Transections on Signal Processing 50: 1417-1428. [IEEE Signal Processing Society’s 2006 – Best Paper Award]
• *Blu T and Unser M. (2002) Wavelets, fractals, and radial basis functions. IEEE Transections on Signal Processing 50: 543-553. [IEEE Signal Processing Society’s 2003 – Best Paper Award]
• Thévenaz P, *Blu T and Unser M. (2000) Interpolation revisited. IEEE Transections on Medical Imaging 19: 739-758.
• *Blu T and Unser M. (1999). Quantitative Fourier analysis of approximation techniques: Part I—Interpolators and projectors. IEEE Transections on Signal Processing 47: 2783-2795.

 

Research Grants as PC/PI

• 2013-2015, Research Grants Council (RGC) GRF Grant “Image restoration using unbiased risk estimates”, HK$500,000;
• 2011-2013, RGC GRF Grant “Improved Algorithms for Finite Rate of Innovation Signals”, HK$1,083,300;
• 2010-2013, RGC GRF Grant “Non-Redundant Complex Wavelet Transform: Definition, Design and Implementation”, HK$724,500;
• 2008-2010, DGR “Poisson noise reduction using an unbiased risk estimate: Application to biological image denoising”, HK$150,000

 

Awards

• 2012: IEEE Fellow
• 2009: Young author best paper award, IEEE Signal Processing Society
• 2006: Best Paper Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society
• 2005: Best Student Paper Award, ICIP 2005
• 2003: Best Paper Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society

 

Professional Activities

• Editor in Chief: Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing (2009–)
• Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2002–2006); IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2006–2010); Elsevier Signal Processing (2008–2011); EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing (2009–)
• Guest Editor: Elsevier Signal Processing Special Issue on Advances in Multirate Filter Bank Structures and Multiscale Representations
• Chair: Program Committee for WavE 2006 (Lausanne) General Co-Chair of SAMPTA 2011 (Singapore) Asia liaison for ISBI 2012 (Barcelona), SSP 2012 (Ann Arbor, MI)
• Member: IEEE Signal Processing Society Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee (2008–); Program Committee for EUSIPCO 2004 (Vienna), SPIE Wavelet X, BioMed 2006–2008 (Innsbru ̈ck), ICSP 2008 (Beijing), APSIPA 2009–2010, SSP 2012 (Ann Arbor). ICIP 2006 special session organizer “signal/image reconstruction from sparse measurements” (with P.L. Dragotti and M. Vetterli)
• Session Chair: SPIE Wavelet VII and X, Pacific Rim Conference on Mathematics 2001 (Taipeh), International Conference on Superresolution Imaging 2005 (Hong Kong), Inter- national Conference on Image Processing 2010 (Hong Kong)
• Reviewer: Various IEEE Transactions, IEEE conferences, SIAM publications, Nature Methods, JOSA, books, conferences and research grant proposals
• Jury: Chairman/Member of PhD and award committees