Tamas Sziranyi

Between 1980 and 1991, he worked as a developer and manager at the Development Institute of the Videoton Electronics Company. He participated in the design of optoelectronic units and coordinated related research and university education. In 1986, the zero series of the laser printer they designed was completed, which was the first marketable product of its own design in Eastern Europe. They also developed a pilot copy of a facsimile device. In connection with the previous works, he conducted several basic research studies with the aim of examining optical systems and image quality; he published his results in international journals. Several innovations and two inventions are associated with the implementations. He then worked on the hardware development of optical disk storage devices. The group he led, and later a 24-person department, developed the first Hungarian CD-ROM prototype and the pilot copy of the rewritable laser disk device by 1990.

Meanwhile, as a second-time employee, he participated in Tamás Roska's research group at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Computer Science and Automation Research Institute (SZTAKI) in hardware development and image processing work. He has been working there full-time since 1991, later as a scientific consultant.

Since 2006, he has been the founder and head of the Machine Sensing Research Laboratory (formerly Distributed Event Analysis Research Lab.) at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (SZTAKI). The main research and development areas of the Research Laboratory are: earth observation, robot localization, GIS modeling, camera networks.

In addition to the above work, he taught for years at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Budapest University of Technology (BME). From 1992 to 2003, he participated in the organization of the Informatics Department of the University of Veszprém (VE), where he was a university professor, responsible instructor of image processing subjects, and head of the Image Processing Laboratory. From 2003 to 2013, he was a university professor at the Faculty of Information Technology of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPKE). Since 2013, he has been a professor at the Department of Material Handling and Logistics Systems, Faculty of Transport and Vehicle Engineering (KJK), Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME).

He received his doctorate from the BME in 1983. He defended his candidate thesis - “New measurement and recognition methods in image processing” - in 1991. He defended his MTA doctoral thesis - “Self-organizing image fields - Exploitation, interpretation and compression of image information with self-organizing spatial and temporal algorithms” - in 2001. He habilitated at the University of Veszprém in November 2001; in 2002 he was appointed as a university professor there.

His areas of expertise include: machine sensing and environmental modeling, robot navigation, earth observation from satellite and aerial imagery, and 3D mapping of built space.
He has published more than 270 scientific publications to date, including 50 in prestigious international journals. He holds 5 patents.

He was the founder and for 5 years the president of the Hungarian Society of Image Processors and Pattern Recognition (KÉPAF), whose conferences he organized in 1997, 2001 and 2017 as co-chair. The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) elected him a Fellow in 2008; he is a member of the IAPR governing body. As a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Signal Processing Society, he was the editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing from 2002 for 6 years. He is a co-editor of the Digital Signal Processing Journal.
Member of the Hungarian Academy of Engineering (MMA) (since 2008); elected member of the Council of Academic Research Sites (AKT) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2009-2015); member of the Board of Trustees of the Bolyai Scholarship Foundation (2007-2013); representative of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Doctoral Committee (2007-2013); member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Presidential Committee on Public Education (2012-2017).

Honors: Master Professor (National Council of Scientific Students (OTDT), 2001); Pro Scientia (VE, 2011); Officer's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit (President of the Republic of Hungary, 2018); Kalmár Prize (NJSZT, 2021).