Svitlana ZINGER


Born: 07/06/1978 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

Homepage: http://zinger.site.voila.fr/


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2006-2008 - postdoctoral position
Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG), University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
Subject: Information retrieval for handwritten documents; in the framework of the SCRATCH (SCRipt Analysis Tools for Cultural Heritage) project from the CATCH (Continuous Access To Cultural Heritage) program of the NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research)

2005: postdoctoral scholarship from European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM)
Multimedia and Multilingual Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Paris, France
Subject: Creation of large-scale image ontology; in the framework of the MUSCLE (Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning) Network of Excellence; exploration of text and image processing techniques for pattern recognition; using lexical resources for finding portrayable objects in text and for image ontology creation; web-based image mining for building a visual dictionary

2000: Internship
Signal and Image Processing Department, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), Paris, France
Subject: Optimization of digital watermarking performances using different coding strategies
Supervisor: H. Maître


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2008: Course, term paper, Bachelor project
Center for Language and Cognition Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
Specialty: Natural language processing
Subject: Information retrieval for handwritten documents

2007: Course, term paper, Bachelor project
Center for Language and Cognition Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
Specialty: Natural language processing
Subject: Sequence comparison

2003: Student project co-supervision
Signal and Image Processing Department, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France
Specialty: Image analysis
Subject: Median filtering for digital elevation model interpolation

2002-2003: Participation in Master of science courses
Laboratory for Methods of Analysis and Image Processing for Stereo reconstruction, Ecole Nationale des Sciences Géographiques, Marne-la-Vallée, France
Specialty: Digital photogrammetry, metric image and 3D vision
Subject: Spatial data interpolation


EDUCATION

2001-2004: Ph.D. thesis
Signal and Image Processing Department, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France
Specialty: Signal and image processing
Subject: Interpolation and resampling of three-dimensional data and its application for urban cartography and for determination of cosmic microwave background
Supervisors: H. Maître and M. Roux

1995-2000: M.Sc. (Diploma with distinction)
Faculty of Radiophysics, Dnipropetrovsk State University, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
Specialty: Digital signal and image processing
Subject: Prediction of non-stationary stochastic processes based on adaptive neural networks


PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member of a reading group Computational Linguistics

Reviewed papers for
International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition,
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing


EXPERTISE

Mathematics
Sequence comparison. Pattern recognition: clustering and segmentation. Interpolation and sampling theory. Statistics, geostatistics. Probability theory. Stochastic processes. Solutions of ill-posed problems: regularized inverse problems. Time series analysis. Fuzzy sets theory. Neural networks. Matrix theory and linear algebra.

Digital Signal and Image processing
Image indexing and retrieval. Inverse problems. Image interpolation preserving discontinuities. Digital watermarking. Time series analysis and prediction methods. Iterative and direct methods for signal and image restoration. Fourier, wavelet transform. Morphological image processing.

Computer skills
Matlab, Python, C, Pascal, MathCAD, AutoCAD, Lisp, FoxPro, Windows, DOS, Unix, Microsoft Office, Latex, HTML.


LANGUAGES

English (General Professional Proficiency level according to the TOEIC exam)
Dutch (Nederlands als Tweede Taal, programma 2 – NT2-II diploma)
French
Russian
Ukrainian


PUBLICATIONS