Education Virginia Tech | ||
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Alma mater - Virginia Tech (B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1988)
- University of Texas, Austin (M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1990)
- University of Texas, Austin (Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1993) Website www.ece.virginia.edu/faculty/acton.html Books Biomedical Image Analysis: Tracking, Biomedical Image Analysis: Segmentation | ||
Scott T. Acton is a professor in the Charles L. Brown Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and in the Biomedical Engineering Department of the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science, Charlottesville campus. Acton was born in California. He is the director of the Virginia Image and Video Analysis (VIVA) group there. He works in the fields of video tracking and anisotropic diffusion.
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His B.S. degree (1988) is from Virginia Tech, his M.S.(1990) and Ph.D (1993) degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, where his advisor was Al Bovik. He is a senior member of the IEEE., is Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and, previously, for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters. Acton has been at the University of Virginia since 2000. Before that time, he worked in the academic world for Oklahoma State University and in the engineering world for AT&T, Motorola and the Mitre Corporation.
Publications
He has published over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles, and 90 peer-reviewed conference presentations.