• 16 years of experience in compression: mostly video, but data, image and audio too

• Was involved into 5 startups in 2000-2005, 4 of them (80%) are still alive

• Strong experience in video filtering: 50+ projects for different companies

• 5 of my former students successfully defended PhD theses by now

• Founder of compression.ru and organizer of probably most well-known video codecs comparisons
Specialties

Areas of expertise:

• Video Processing (Motion Estimation, Motion Compensation, Frame Rate Conversion, Super Resolution, Deinterlacing, Deblocking, Deringing, Deflicking, Optical flow, Video Enhancement, Video Restoration, Artifact Reduction, etc)

• Videocodecs Testing and Tuning (Black-box Codecs Analysis, Paretto-optimal Efficiency Analysis, Options Analysis)

• Video Quality Measurement (Modern Objective Metrics, Artefacts Measurement)

• Team/Company Management