Michal Choras, Ph.D. Eng.

I work as assistant professor (polish position: 'adiunkt') in the Department of Telecommunication Systems in the Institute of Telecommunications at University of Technology and Life Sciences (UTP, former ATR) in Bydgoszcz.

I'm the author and co-author of over 100 scientific papers . The list of my publications ishere.

I studied Telecommunications&Electronics at ATR Bydgoszcz and I graduated as the specialist in multimedia and telecommunications systems in 2001.
I also studied in Sweden (LiU) and I worked for Ericsson and Lucent Technologies (internship).

In September 2005 I defended (with distinction) my Ph.D. Thesis entitled 'Human Identification Based on Ear Image Analysis' supervised by professor Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, AGH Cracow.

Some of my papers have been cited by independent researches. The list of the found citations is here.

I also work as consultant and project manager in the area of telecommunications, IT systems and informatics.
In 2011 I received PRINCE2 Project Management Certificate (P2F) .

Moreover, I consult IT systems and networks security problems as well as safety (military, crisis management, the police operational procedures) aspects.

I have been involved as in several EU research projects such as FP7 INTERSECTION (ICT), FP7 INSPIRE (ICT-SEC), FP7 INSPIRE-INCO (ICT), ATHENA (EDA) and national research projects.

I am a lecturer at Telecommunications and Multimedia (TEMU) summer school (TEI Crete, Heraklion, 2009).

Michal Choras - Research

My research is focused on image analysis and coding, image processing, passive biometrics and pattern recognition. I'm especially interested and involved in research concerning passive systems of human identification based on image analysis. I'm the member of the Image Processing Research Group.

My developments include geometrical feature extraction algorithms and methods for ear biometrics, as well as feature extraction and representation methods for lips recognition , face recognition, stereo & robotics vision and CBIR systems.
My recent research interests are biometrics based on keystroke dynamics and multimodal hand/palm biometrics . Recently, I have worked on lips recognition and knuckle texture features for biometric human identification.

I also work on anomaly detection methods for IDS systems, network traffic pattern analysis, military network enabled capabilities, semantic network management (ontologies) and critical infrastructure protection (CIP).

I attended numerous international conferences. I was asked to chair sessions at IAPR PRIP 2005 in Minsk, ICIC 2009 in Ulsan, CORES 2011 in Wroclaw.

I was honoured by the ''Best Young Researcher Paper Award'' in the area of biometrics for the paper ''Multimodal Hand-Palm Biometrics'' and the related oral presentation at ICANNGA 2007 Conference.

In 2006 I finished the Course of Pedagogics for University employees.

My biography has been included into Who's Who in the World

I was honoured for outstanding research by the Group Award of the 1st Degree by the Rector of UT&LS for publications in 3 consecutive years: 2002, 2003, 2004.
I was honoured for outstanding research by the Individual Award of the 1st Degree by the Rector of UT&LS in 5 consecutive years: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.
In 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 I gained the most KBN Points for publications in the Faculty of Telecommunications and Electrotechnics.

I was honoured by the President of Bydgoszcz City Award for the young scientists in 2010.
I was honoured by the UT&LS Rector Award for Young Scientists in 2009 and 2010.

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