Timo Ahonen
Senior ResearcherNokia Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
Timo Ahonen is a Senior Researcher in the Spatial Technologies team at Nokia Research Center Palo Alto since March 2010. Currently he is working on computational photography on mobile devices.
Timo holds his M.Sc. and Doctor of Science degrees in Information Engineering from University of Oulu, Finland. In his doctoral work, he studied texture and face image analysis.
Professional Activities
Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
- Pattern Recognition
- Pattern Recognition Letters
- Computer Vision and Image Understanding
- Conferences in computer vision: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, etc
Research Interests
- Computational photography
- Interactive image processing
- Computer vision
- Biometrics
Research Projects
Recent Projects
- FCam camera library for the Nokia N9
- Panorama application for Nokia phones
Publications
Selected publications
Pietikäinen M, Hadid A, Zhao G & Ahonen T (2011)
Computer Vision Using Local Binary Patterns. Springer, in press.
Ahonen T (2009)
Face and texture image analysis with quantized filter response statistics. Dissertation, Acta Univ Oul C 330, 89 p.
Ahonen T & Pietikäinen M (2009)
Image description using joint distribution of filter bank responses. Pattern Recognition Letters 30(4):368-376.
Ahonen T & Pietikäinen M (2009)
Pixelwise local binary pattern models of faces using kernel density estimation. In: Advances in Biometrics, ICB 2009 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5558, 52-61.
Ahonen T, Matas J, He C & Pietikäinen M (2009)
Rotation invariant image description with local binary pattern histogram fourier features. In: Image Analysis, SCIA 2009 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5575, 61-70.
Ahonen T, Matas J, He C & Pietikäinen M (2009)
Rotation invariant image description with local binary pattern histogram fourier features. In: Image Analysis, SCIA 2009 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5575, 61-70.
Ahonen T, Hadid A & Pietikäinen M (2006)
Face description with local binary patterns: Application to face recognition. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 28(12):2037-2041.
Ahonen T, Hadid A & Pietikäinen M (2004)
Face recognition with local binary patterns. Computer Vision, ECCV 2004 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3021, Springer, 469-481.
