Cosmin Ancuti

Lecturer,Habil. Dr.Eng.

Contact information

About: I am lecturer at UPT and I was a research fellow at University Catholique of Louvain, Belgium. Prior to joining UPT, I was a senior researcher at University of Hasselt, Belgium. My main research interests are image processing and computer vision.

	Adress:Room B312, 3rd Floor, Bd. Vasile Parvan, nr. 2, 300223 Timisoara, Romania
	Tel: (0040) 256-40-3364 Fax: (0040) 256-40-3295
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Books and Book Chapters

Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta O. Ancuti and P. Bekaert. "Single Image Restoration of Outdoor Scenes". In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, book series (LNCS, volume 6855) 2011.

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti, Christophe De Vleeschouwer and Radu Timofte, " I-HAZE: a dehazing benchmark with real hazy and haze-free indoor images". In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, book series (LNCS, volume 11182)

Scientific Papers

Publications List Google Scholar

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti, Christophe Devleeschouwer, "Effective Local Airlight Estimation for Image Dehazing, IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP) 2018"

Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta O. Ancuti, and Radu Timofte, "NTIRE 2018 Challenge on Image Dehazing: Methods and Results", IEEE CVPR - NTIRE 2018.

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti, Christophe De Vleeschouwer and Radu Timofte, "O-HAZE: a dehazing benchmark with real hazy and haze-free outdoor images ", IEEE CVPR - NTIRE 2018

Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta O. Ancuti, Christophe De Vleeschouwer and Philippe Bekaert, "Color balance and fusion for underwater image enhancement", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 2017

Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta O. Ancuti, Christophe Devleeschouwer, Rafel Garcia "Locally Adaptive Color Correction for Underwater Dehazing and Image Matching", IEEE CVPR - NTIRE 2017

Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta O. Ancuti, Christophe Devleeschouwer, Rafel Garcia, " A Semi-Global Color Correction for Underwater Image Restoration", Siggraph poster 2017

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti, Christophe Devleeschouwer, Laszlo Neumann, Rafael Garcia, "Color transfer for underwater dehazing and depth estimation", IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP) 2017

Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta O. Ancuti, Christophe De Vleeschouwer, Rafael Garcia, Al C. Bovik, "Multi-scale Underwater Descattering", International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), oral, Cancun, Mexico,2016

Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta O. Ancuti, Christophe De Vleeschouwer, Al C. Bovik. "Night Time Dehazing by Fusion", IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP), Phoenix, US, 2016

Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta O. Ancuti and Christophe De Vleeschouwer, "D-HAZY: A Dataset to Evaluate Quantitatively Dehazing Algorithms", IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP) , Phoenix, US, 2016

Codruta O. Ancuti and C. Ancuti, "Laplacian-Guided Image Decolorization" , IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP), Phoenix, US, 2016

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti, Christophe De Vleeschouwer and Al C. Bovik, "Single-Scale Fusion: An Effective Approach to Merging Images". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 26(1):65-78, 2017

Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta O. Ancuti and Christophe De Vleeschouwer, Mateu Sbert, "Decolorization by Fusion". IEEE Access

Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta O. Ancuti " Effective Contrast-Based Dehazing for Robust Image Matching". IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, april, 2014

Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta O. Ancuti " Effective Contrast-Based Dehazing for Robust Image Matching". IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, april, 2014

P. Goorts, Cosmin Ancuti, M. Dumont, S. Rogmans, P. Bekaert: "Real-time Video-based View Interpolation of Soccer Events using Depth-selective Plane Sweeping", VISAPP , 2013

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti . "Single image dehazing by multi-scale fusion ". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 22(8):3271-82, Aug, 2013

Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta O. Ancuti, and P. Bekaert, "Enhancing Underwater Images and Videos by Fusion", In Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (IEEE CVPR), 2012

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti and P. Bekaert, "Enhancing by Saliency-guided Decolorization", In Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (IEEE CVPR), Colorado Springs, USA, June, 2011.

Cosmin Ancuti , Codruta O. Ancuti, and P. Bekaert. "Fusion-based Restoration of the Underwater Images ". IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP), Belgium, 2011

Mark Gerrits, Bert de Decker, Cosmin Ancuti, Tom Haber, Codruta O. Ancuti and P. Bekaert, "Stroke-based Creation of Depth Maps". IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, (IEEE ICME), Barcelona, Spain, July, 2011.

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti and P. Bekaert. "Decolorizing Images for Robust Matching". IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Proc. (IEEE ICIP), Hong Kong, 2010. (oral).

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti and P. Bekaert. " Effective Single Image Dehazing by Fusion". IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Proc. (IEEE ICIP), Hong Kong ,Sep., 2010.

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti, Chris Hermans and P. Bekaert. "Image and Video Decolorization by Fusion". In Asian Conf. on Comp. Vision (ACCV), (oral presentation),New Zealand , 2010.

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti, Chris Hermans and P. Bekaert. " A Fast Semi-Inverse Approach to Detect and Remove the Haze from a Single Image". In Proceedings of 10th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), New Zealand 2010.

Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta O. Ancuti and P. Bekaert. "Video Super-Resolution Using High Quality Photographs". IEEE ICASSP, Dallas, USA, 2010. (oral).

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti and P. Bekaert. "CC-SIFT: Exploiting Chromatic Contrast for Wide-Baseline Matching". In IEEE ICASSP, Dallas, USA, 2010.

Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta Orniana Ancuti and P. Bekaert, "Deblurring by Matching". In Computer Graphics Forum (EUROGRAPHICS) ,Vol. 28, Nr. 2, pp. 619-628, 2009.

Cosmin Ancuti, Tom Haber, Tom Mertens and P. Bekaert, "Video enhancement using reference photographs". Journal of Visual Computer, 24 : 7-9, 2009.

Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta Orniana Ancuti and P. Bekaert, "An Efficient Two Steps Algorithm for Wide Baseline Image Matching". Journal of Visual Computer, 2009.

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti and P. Bekaert, " Enhancing Underwater Images by Fusion". ACM SIGGRAPH , (poster), Vancouver, Canada, August, 2011.

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti and P. Bekaert, " Layer-based Single Image Dehazing by Per-Pixel Haze Detection ". ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA, (sketch oral presentation), Korea, 2010.

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti and P. Bekaert, "Fusion-based Image And Video Decolorization", ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA, (sketch-oral presentation), Seoul, Korea, 2010.

Cosmin Ancuti , Codruta O.Ancuti and P. Bekaert. "A Patch-Based Approach to Restore Videos Using Additional Stills ". In Proceedings of IEEE ELMAR , Zadar, Croatia, 2010.

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti and P. Bekaert," Guiding visual attention in grayscale images for auditory substitution systems ". In Proc. of IEEE ELMAR , Croatia, 2010.

Cosmin Ancuti, C. O. Ancuti and P. Bekaert, "A Framework to Improve Matching Results of Widely Separated Views",Int. Conf. on Comp. Vision Theory and App., France, 2010.

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti and P. Bekaert, " Robust Grayscale Conversion for Vision-Substitution Systems". Int. Conf. on Comp. Vision Theory and Applic., France, 2010.

Codruta O. Ancuti, C. Ancuti and P. Bekaert "An Effective Grayscale Conversion with Applications to Image Enhancement",ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA,(sketch-oral present.) Japan, 2009.

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti and P. Bekaert, "ColEnViSon: Color Enhanced Visual Sonifier. A Polyphonic Audio Texture and Salient Scene Analysis." Int. Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applic., Lisbon, Portugal, Feb. 5- 8, 2009.

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti and P. Bekaert, "Preserving visual saliency in image to sound substitution systems". In SPIE HVEI 2009, San Jose, USA, January 19-21, 2009.

Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta O. Ancuti and P. Bekaert, "Image Deblurring by Corresponding Regions". ACM SIGGRAPH 2008, (poster) Los Angeles, USA, August 11-15, 2008.

Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta O. Ancuti and P. Bekaert, "Image Deblurring by Corresponding Regions". ACM SIGGRAPH 2008, (poster) Los Angeles, USA, August 11-15, 2008.

Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta O. Ancuti and P. Bekaert, "Robust matching of images across large viewpoint changes". In Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing, Spain , 2008.

Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti and P. Bekaert, "Active Systems Decisions Enhancement Using User Model in Pervasive Computing Enviroments" In IEEE ICPS, 2007.

Cosmin Ancuti, T. Haber, T. Mertens and P. Bekaert, "Video enhancement using reference photographs". ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 (sketch-oral presentation), San Diego, 2007.

Cosmin Ancuti, P. Bekaert, "SIFT-CCH: Increasing the SIFT distinctness by Color Cooccurrence Histograms" In IEEE Symp. on Img. and Signal Proc. and Analysis, Turkey, 2007.

Cosmin Ancuti and P. Bekaert, "A scale invariant detector based on local energy model for matching images". Journal of WSCG, 2007.

Lectures and Fields of interest

Senzori si actuatori;
Arhitectura retelelor de calculatoare;
Fields of interest: image processing, computer vision, machine learning, sensors and data acquisition;