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Thrasyvoulos (Thrasos) N. Pappas is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University's Department of Electrical Engineering. His research interests include human perception and electronic media, with a focus on image quality and compression, image analysis, content-based retrieval, model-based halftoning, and tactile and multimodal interfaces. He has published extensively in areas such as texture similarity metrics, texture synthesis, and image reconstruction. His work has appeared in journals such as IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and ACM Transactions on Graphics.
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Thrasyvoulos Pappas is a professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University, specializing in image processing, signal processing, computer vision, and human perception. His research focuses on developing advanced algorithms for image segmentation, perceptual quality evaluation, and efficient video transmission. He has contributed to areas such as adaptive clustering, structural similarity metrics, and resource allocation for wireless video communications. His work also includes applications in medical imaging, such as coronary artery dimension estimation, and digital halftoning techniques. Pappas's research bridges theoretical signal processing with practical applications in multimedia and human-computer interaction.