Narciso García

Dr. Ingeniero de Telecomunicación

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Narciso García was born in Madrid (Spain) in 1954.

He received the Ingeniero de Telecomunicación degree (five years engineering program) with high honors in 1976 (Spanish National Graduation Award) and the Doctor Ingeniero de Telecomunicación degree (PhD in Communications) with "Summa Cum Laude" in 1983 (Doctoral Graduation Award), both by the E.T.S. Ingenieros de Telecomunicación of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Since 1973 he has been with E.T.S. Ingenieros de Telecomunicación of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, since 1977 he has been a member of its faculty (tenure as Associate Professor in 1984), and since 1990 he is Professor of Signal Theory and Communications at the Department of Signals, Systems, and Communications. He leaders the Image Processing Group (Grupo de Tratamiento de Imágenes) and is the Head of the Department of Signals, Systems and Communications.

From 1978 till 1988 he was also a Scientific Advisor at the Image Processing Department of the IBM Madrid Scientific Center. He has been Coordinator of the Spanish Evaluation Agency from 1990 till 1992 and auditor and evaluator of European programs since 1990.

His professional interests cover digital image processing, digital television, computer vision, and telecommunication systems. He has been actively involved in European projects (Eureka, Race, Esprit, Cost) and has been one of the cowriters of EBU proposal, base of the ITU standard for digital transmission of TV at 34-45 Mb/s (ITU-T J.81).

Professor García is a pioneer of digital image processing activities in Spain and has received the Junior Research Award of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 1987 and the Senior Research Award of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 1994.