Electro-technical Industrial Engineer in Electronics (VLSI Design), IHAM Mechelen, Belgium, 1991

Electro-technical Civil Engineer in Applied Physics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 1994

Medical Physicist (Postgraduate in Biomedical and Clinical Engineering Techniques), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 1995

Ph.D. Applied Sciences (Electronic Engineering), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 2001

Fundamental research: source/channel modeling and coding, information theory, signal representations (Fourier theory, wavelet theory, curvelets, contourlets, etc.), quantization (successive approximation quantization, multiple description quantizers, L-infinite strategies, etc.), convex optimization problems, data hiding, digital signal processing, multidimensional signal processing

Strategic research: image, video and multi-dimensional signal representation (JPEG, MPEG, wavelet-based coding schemes), (multi)dimensional signal processing and communication, error-resilient coding (distributed video coding, multiple description coding, joint source-channel coding, etc.), computer architectures (memory optimization, GPGPU/GPU/SSE processing, high performance computing, exascale computing), objective and subjective quality metrics and assessment procedures, data forensics, watermarking, content authentication.

Applied research domains: medical imaging, eHealth, bio-informatics, HD/3D media production and broadcasting, cultural heritage, media archiving

Peter Schelkens received his degree in electronic engineering in VLSI-design from the Industriële Hogeschool Antwerpen-Mechelen (IHAM), Campus Mechelen. Thereafter, he obtained an electrical engineering degree (MSc) in applied physics, a biomedical engineering degree (medical physics), and, finally, a PhD degree in applied sciences from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).

Peter Schelkens currently holds a professorship at the Department of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Peter Schelkens is research director at the iMinds institute founded by the Flemish government to stimulate ICT innovation. Additionally, since 1995, he has also been affiliated to the Interuniversity Microelectronics Institute (www.IMEC.be), Belgium, as scientific collaborator. Since 2010, he became a member of the board of councilors of the same institute. From 2002 till 2011, Peter Schelkens has hold an FWO postdoctoral fellowship.

The research interests of Peter Schelkens are situated in the field of multidimensional signal processing encompassing the representation, communication, security and rendering of these signals while especially focussing on cross-disciplinary research. Peter Schelkens has published over 200 papers in journals and conference proceedings, and he holds several patents and contributed to several standardisation processes. His team is participating in the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 (JPEG) and WG11 (MPEG) standardization activities. Peter Schelkens is the Belgian head of delegation for the ISO/IEC JPEG standardization committee, editor/chair of part 10 of JPEG 2000: ‘‘Extensions for Three-Dimensional Data’’ and PR Chair of the JPEG committee. From 2012 onwards he is acting as rapporteur/chair of JPEG Coding and Analysis Technologies, overlooking image processing technologies embedded in all JPEG standards. He is co-editor of the books, ‘‘The JPEG 2000 Suite’’ and “Optical and Digital Image Processing”, published respectively in 2009 and 2011 by Wiley. He is a member of the IEEE, SPIE, and ACM, Belgian EURASIP Liaison Officer and committee member of the IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (IVMSP TC)

In 2011, he was acting as General (co-)Chair of the following conferences: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP, www.icip2011.org), Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX, www.qomex2011.org) and Workshop on Image Processing for Art Investigation (IP4AI, www.ip4ai.org). Peter Schelkens is also co-founder of the spin-off company, Universum Digitalis (www.universumdigitalis.com). His team is also member of the Intel Exascience Lab (www.exascience.com) in Belgium.