Andrew Perkis was born in Norway 1961. He received his Siv.Ing and Dr. Techn. Degrees in 1985 and 1994, respectively. He was a research scientist at SINTEF DELAB from 1986-1989, working primarily on speech coding and mobile satellite communication systems. From 1989-1991 he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wollongong, Australia, as a lecturer. On return to Norway he has held various positions at the Norwegian Institute of Technology. Since 2003 he has held the position of Professor at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications. In 1999/ 2000 he was visiting professor at the School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Wollongong in in New South Wales Australia.
Currently he is focusing on Multimedia over IP Networks as part of the Norwgian Centre of Excellence "Quantifiable Quality of Service in Communication Systems" - Q2S . The core activities are within Multimedia Signal Processing, specifically within second generation image and video compression schemes (JPEG2000, MPEG-4 ), multimedia descriptors ( MPEG-7 ) and the development of the Multimedia Framework ( MPEG-21 ). The targeted applications are Universal Multimedia Access in Wired and Wireless systems, including 3G (IMT2000/UMTS) and 4G communication systems. His work includes topics within Resource representation, Digital Item Adaptation (DIA), media conversions and error resilience.
He has participated actively in the standardisation of the next generation still image compression scheme - JPEG2000 (ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC29/WG1) and in the development of the Multimedia framework – MPEG-21 (ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC29/WG11) . In JPEG2000 he contributed to technical issues in error resilience and co-ordination of the EUROPEAN efforts as coordinator of the ESPRIT Working Group EUROSTILL as well as partner in the ACTS project SPEAR . In MPEG-21 he was co-editor of MPEG-21 Part I (Vision, Technologies and Strategy) and has contributed actively to MPEG-21 Part 7 Digital Item Adaptation. He has been chairing the ad.hoc. groups dealing with Core Experiments in MPEG-21.
He was project manager for UMA – Universal Multimedia Access from Wired and Wireless system, funded under The Basic ICT Research program by the Royal Norwegian Research Council, Universal Access to the Multimedia Portal , funded by NORDUnet2 under The Nordic Minister Council and WIRAC – Wideband Radio Access - under The Basic Telecommunications Research program funded by The Royal Norwegian Research Council. Previously he has managed several smaller projects on student exchange and introduction of Computer Aided learning. He holds positions in the Steering committees of WEBTEK (under NTNU’s ICT Center of Excellency) and is leadijg the steering group for Midgard Media Lab. He has acted as auditor and reviewer for the EC 4th, 5th and 6th framework programs for IST.
He is a Senior Member of The IEEE, The Norwegian Society of Chartered Engineers (NIF), The Norwegian Signal Processing Society (NORSIG) and The Norwegian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition society (NOBIM).
