• 28 June, 1962, Sofia, Bulgaria

• 1998 Ph.D.  in Applied Mathematics; Thesis: Morphological analysis of geometric shapes and its applications to pattern recognition and robotics, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University
• 1987 M.Sc. , Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University

 

 
 
 

Member of IEEE  Computer Society
 
 

• 1997 Laboratory of Computer Aided Medical Diagnosis and Imaging, Texas A&M University
• 1992/93 Specialisation on Artificial Intelligence (AI in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition), University of Hull, UK (a six month British Council grant)

• English (fluent)
• Russian (operational)

 

 
 



Record of Employment

present:          Associate  Professor, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (FMI), Sofia University (SU)
1987-88:         Software Engineer Institute of Industrial Cybernetics and Robotics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
1989-92:         Ph.D. Student and Research Assistant, FMI - Mechatronica Lab., SU

1.  For the undergraduate and graduate students from the  Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at the  University of Sofia (Informatics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence):

    Fuzzy Sets and Their Applications  to Informatics and Control
    Computational Geometry
    Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications
    Motion planning in Cluttered  Environment
    Software for Applications

2. For the undergraduate and graduate students from the department of Electrical Engineerng -  Texas A&M University

    Digital Image Processing  (1997/1998)
 

• Image Processing, Computational Geometry
• Pattern Recognition, Robot Motion Planning
• Reliable and Interval Computations
• Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Geometry
• Mathematical Morphology
• Bio and Medical Informatics

• Image Processing and its Applications, Edinburgh, 3-5 July 1995
• International Symposium of Mathematical Morphology , Amsterdam, Holland, June, 1998
• NATO ASI on Fractal Image Encoding and Analysis, Trondheim, Norway, July 1995
• Fourth International Conference on Discrete Mathematics, Dortmund, Germany, July, 1994
• MSI Workshop on Computational Geometry, Cornell University, Ithaca USA, September, 1994
• International Workshop on Interval Computations MISC'99, Girona, Spain, February 1999
• IEEE International Conference on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing NSIP '99, Antalya, Turkey
• and other conferences in Bulgaria, France, Germany and Poland

1. Bekjarov, B., A. T. Popov, O. Katov, " Collision - free movement planning for robot manipulators, in T.O'Shea, V.Sgurev (eds.), Artificial Intelligence III - Methodology, Systems, Applications, pp. 381--388, North - Holland, 1988.

2. Popov A. T. "On some applications of mathematical morphology to robot motion planning in cluttered environment", Cyprus Journal of Technology, 1 (4), pp. 51 - 60, 1998.

3. Popov  A.T., A. G. Hall," Multiresolutional texture analysis based on morphological techniques", Proc. of IEE Colloquium on Morphological and Non-linear Image Processing Techniques, IEE digest 145/93, London 1993.

4. Popov A. T., "Morphological operations on fuzzy sets", Fifth Int. Conf. on Image Processing and its Applications, IEE Conference Publication No. 410 pp. 837 - 840, 1995.

5. Popov A. T., “On some properties of convexity indicators based on fuzzy morphology”, SPIE Proceedings vol. 3168 - Vision Geometry VI, 1996.

6. Popov A.T., "Convexity indicators based on fuzzy morphology", Pattern Recognition Letters, 18 (3), pp. 259 - 267, 1997.

7. Popov A.T., "Multiscale fractal texture analysis using morphological techniques", Fractals, 5 pp. 125 - 131, April 1997.

8. Popov A.T., "A relation between morphological and interval operations", Reliable Computing, 4 (2), pp. 167 - 178, 1998.

9. Popov A.T., H.T. Nguyen, L. K. Reznik, "An application of fuzzy mathematical morphology to interval - valued knowledge representation: A remark", Reliable Computing, 4 (3), pp. 283 - 290, 1998.

10. Popov A.T., " Approximations of set skeletons", SPIE Proceedings vol. 3454 - Vision Geometry VII, 1998.

11. Popov A. T., E. R. Dougherty, " Fuzzy adaptive Voronoi diagram based clustering of textured images", SPIE Proceedings vol. 3454 - Vision Geometry VII, 1998.

12. Popov A.T., " Numerical and approximation tools based on mathematical morphology",  H. Heijmans, J. Roerdink (eds.), Mathematical Morohology and its Applications to Image and Signal Processing,  pp. 3 -10,  Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.

13.  S.Baeg, S. Batman E.R.Dougherty, V.G.Kamat, N.Kehtarnavaz, S.Kim, A.Popov, K.Sivakumar,  R. Shah, “Unsupervised morphological granulometric texture segmentation of digital mammograms, Journal of Electronic Imaging” , vol. 8 (1), pp. 65-75, 1999.

14.   Dougherty  E. R.,  A. T. Popov, “ Fuzzy mathematical morphology based on fuzzy inclusion”, Chapter 3 of the volume  Fuzzy Techniques in Image Processing, M. Nachtegael and E. Kerre (eds.), Physica -Verlag, Berlin,  2000.

15. A.T. Popov,"Approximate connectivity and mathematical morphology", John Goutsias, Luc Vincent,  Dan S. Bloomberg (eds), Mathematical Morohology and its Applications to Image and Signal Processing,  pp. 149--158,  Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
 


    Dr.    Antony   T.    Popov
    Department of Information Technologies
    Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
    University of Sofia
    5 James Bourchier, Sofia 1164, Bulgaria
    Tel (+359-2) 6256-861
    Tel/Fax (+359-2) 656157
    E-mail: atpopov@fmi.uni-sofia.bg
    Homepage: http://www-it.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/atpopov/