Al Bovik's research passions land at the nexus of visual neuroscience and digital pictures and videos, and how the capture, processing, transmission, and display of visual media can be perceptually optimized. He works with numerous technology companies throughout the television, social media, and cinematic industries including YouTube/Google, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Meta Platforms, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Ericsson, and many others. His neuroscience-based algorithms process most of the traffic passing over the internet, ensuring better bandwidth utilization and optimized visual quality for hundreds of millions of viewers every day. He is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Inventors, and Academia Europaea. Along the way he received the John Fritz Medal, the IEEE Edison Medal, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Technology and Engineering Emmy Award, the RPS Progress Medal, and the Edwin H. Land Medal.
keywords
Digital Video, Visual Neuroscience, Image Processing, Visual Perception, Augmented Reality, Streaming Video, Social Media, Image Quality, Video Quality
MaxViT: Multi-axis Vision Transformer.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics).
459-479.
2022
Telepresence Video Quality Assessment.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics).
327-347.
2022
MAXIM: Multi-Axis MLP for Image Processing.
Proceedings / CVPR, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.
5759-5770.
2022
Patch-VQ: 'Patching Up' the Video Quality Problem.
Proceedings / CVPR, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.
14014-14024.
2021
ADVERSARIAL VIDEO COMPRESSION GUIDED BY SOFT EDGE DETECTION.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
2193-2197.
2020
BBAND INDEX: A NO-REFERENCE BANDING ARTIFACT PREDICTOR.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
2712-2716.
2020
OPTIMAL FEATURE SELECTION FOR BLIND SUPER-RESOLUTION IMAGE QUALITY EVALUATION.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
1842-1846.
2019
STATISTICS OF NATURAL FUSED IMAGE DISTORTIONS.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
1243-1247.
2017
CROWDSOURCED STUDY OF SUBJECTIVE IMAGE QUALITY.
Conference record / Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems & Computers. Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems & Computers.
84-88.
2014
NEW BIVARIATE STATISTICAL MODEL OF NATURAL IMAGE CORRELATIONS.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
2014
MAKING IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT ROBUST.
Conference record / Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems & Computers. Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems & Computers.
1718-1722.
2012
Active Segmentation of 3D Axonal Images.
Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference.
4006-4009.
2012
The Multilinear Compound Gaussian Distribution.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
3849-3852.
2012
TEMPORAL HYSTERESIS MODEL OF TIME VARYING SUBJECTIVE VIDEO QUALITY.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
1153-1156.
2011
FAST STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY INDEX ALGORITHM.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
994-997.
2010
STATISTICS OF NATURAL IMAGE DISTORTIONS.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
962-965.
2010
RANGE IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT BY STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
1149-1152.
2009
SSIM-optimal linear image restoration.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
765-768.
2008
A structural similarity metric for video based on motion models.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
869-872.
2007
The muitilinear ICA decomposition with applications to NSS modeling.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
669-+.
2007
Joint source-channel distortion modelling for MPEG-4 video.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
3871-3874.
2006
Multiple description image coding using natural scene statistics.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
289-292.
2005
Foveated multipoint videoconferencing at low bit rates.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
2069-2072.
2002
Why is image quality assessment so difficult?.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
3313-3316.
2002
A suggestion for JPEG 2000 region of interest coding.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
4048-4048.
2001
DCT-domain blind measurement of blocking artifacts in DCT-coded images.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
1725-1728.
2001
Rate scalable video coding using a foveation-based human visual system model.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
1785-1788.
2001
Real-time foveation techniques for H.263 video encoding in software.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
1781-1784.
2001
AM-FM texture segmentation in electron microscopic muscle imaging.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
2331-2334.
1999
Very low bit rate foveated video coding for H.263.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
3113-3116.
1999
Improved matrix pencil methods.
Conference record / Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems & Computers. Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems & Computers.
1433-1437.
1998
Coperm: Transform-domain energy compaction by optimal permutation.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
3301-3304.
1998
Extracting essential modulated image structure.
Conference record / Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems & Computers. Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems & Computers.
1014-1018.
1996
ECEN 4012 - Special Topics
Primary Instructor
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Fall 2025
Examines a special topic in Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering.
ECEN 5002 - Special Topics
Primary Instructor
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Spring 2025
Examines a special topic in Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. May be repeated for up to 9 total credit hours.
ECEN 5672 - Digital Image Processing
Primary Instructor
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Fall 2025
Provides a hands-on experience of image processing ranging from image formation, basic Fourier theory in multiple dimensions, machine learning theory as applied to image processing ranging from perceptions through transformers and LLM,s with applications, image denoising, image quality prediction, 3D-ranging by stereo, visual neuroscience of pictures and picture statistics. Homeworks are hands on applications of learned methods to real image processing tasks, and there is a semester-long project expected of each student or student team. Recommended prerequisite of ECEN 3810, Introduction to Probability Theory. Same as ECEN 4672.
ECEN 5772 - Digital Video
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Spring 2026
Provides modern theories and applications of processing and analyzing digital videos. The class covers the basic concepts of classic video processing, theories of visual neuroscience as they apply to creating video processing algorithms, and data-driven and deep learning based methods for processing and analyzing digital videos. Emphasis is on fusing these methods to solve real-world digital video processing problems that arise in modern streaming and social media systems. Recommended prerequisite: ECEN 4672/5672 Digital Image Processing and ECEN 5712 Machine Learning for Engineers.
