Professor Mihai Datcu
German Aerospace Center, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Mihai Datcu
received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics and Telecommunications from
the University "Politechnica" of Bucharest
UPB, Romania, in 1978 and 1986. In 1999 he received the title
"Habilitation ŕ diriger des recherches"
from Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France. He
holds a professorship in electronics and telecommunications with UPB since
1981. Since 1993 he is scientist with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen. He is developing algorithms for model
based information retrieval from high complexity signals and methods for scene
understanding from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and interferometric
SAR data. He is engaged in research related to information theoretical aspects
and semantic representations in advanced communication systems.
Currently he is Senior Scientist and Image Analysis research group
leader with the Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF) of DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, coordinator of the CNES-DLR-ENST
Competence Centre on Information Extraction and Image Understanding for Earth
Observation, and professor at ENST Paris. His interests are in Bayesian
inference, information and complexity theory, stochastic processes, model-based
scene understanding, image information mining, for applications in information
retrieval and understanding of high resolution SAR and optical observations.
He has held visiting professor appointments from 1991 to 1992 with
the Department of Mathematics of the University of
Oviedo, Spain, from 2000 to 2002 with the Université
Louis Pasteur, and the International Space University, both in Strasbourg,
France. In 1994 was guest scientist with the Swiss Center for Scientific
Computing (CSCS), Manno, Switzerland and in 2003 he
was visiting professor with the University of Siegen, Germany. From 1992 to
2002 he had a longer invited professor assignment with the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology ETH Zürich. He is involved in advanced research
programs for information extraction, data mining and knowledge discovery and
data understanding with the European Space Agency (ESA), Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), NASA,
and in a variety of European projects. He is member of the European Image
Information Mining Coordination Group (IIMCG).