Dec 8, 2011
Dr. Ton Kalker and Prof. Pierre Moulin, were elected as the Signal Processing Society's Distinguished Lecturers for the year 2012.
Ton Kalker is Vice President of Technology of Corporate Research at Huawei Technologies. He is a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to applications of digital watermarking, and holds more than 40 patents. He is active in the IEEE and has held key leading technical positions in various standardization groups related to DRM interoperability, in particular Coral and DECE. He also actively participates in the academic community. He is a co-founder of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and is former Chair of the Associated Technical Committee. Prior to Huawei, Dr. Kalker was a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, where he led R&D programs on real-time communication, acoustical audio processing and media security. Before Hewlett-Packard, Dr. Kalker was a Principal Scientist at Philips Research, where he made significant contributions to Philips’ Multimedia Security Program, in the area of digital watermarking and content identification. Dr. Kalker holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands, and he has been a faculty member of the Technical University of Eindhoven. His interests are in the field of signal and audio-visual processing, media security, biometrics, information theory and cryptography.
Pierre Moulin received his D.Sc. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1990. After working for five years as a Research Scientist for Bell Communications Research in Morristown, New Jersey, he joined the University of Illinois, where he is currently Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, faculty member in the Beckman Institute's Image Formation and Processing Group, and affiliate professor in the Department of Statistics. His fields of professional interest are image and video processing, statistical signal processing and modeling, decision theory, information hiding, and signal authentication; and the application of multiresolution signal analysis, optimization theory, and fast algorithms to these areas.