Narciso García

 

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Narciso García 

Dr. Ingeniero de Telecomunicación

 

Narciso García
Grupo de Tratamiento de Imágenes Dpto. Señales, Sistemas y Radiocomunicaciones
E.T.S. Ingenieros de Telecomunicación
Madrid, Spain

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 Narciso García received the Telecommunication Engineering degree in 1976 (Spanish National Graduation Award) and the Ph.D. in Communications in 1983 (Doctoral Graduation Award), both from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain.

Since 1977, he has been a member of the faculty at UPM, where he is currently Professor of Signal Theory and Communications. He leads the Grupo de Tratamiento de Imágenes (Image Processing Group).

He has been actively involved in numerous Spanish and European research projects, also serving as evaluator, reviewer, auditor, and observer for several European Union R&D programs. He contributed to the EBU proposal that served as the basis for the ITU-T J.81 standard for digital TV transmission.

He served as area coordinator of the Spanish Evaluation Agency (ANEP) from 1990 to 1992 and has been General Coordinator of the Spanish Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity (CNEAI) since 2011.

He received the UPM Junior and Senior Research Awards in 1987 and 1994, respectively. His research interests include digital image and video compression and computer vision.