Maria Amer	Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
	Biographical sketch

Maria Amer received the Diploma degree in computer engineering from the Universität Dortmund, Germany, in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Université du Québec, Québec, Canada, in 2001.

She is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada.

From 1995 to 1997, she was with Siemens-AG/Munich and the University of Dortmund as a Research and Development Associate.

From 2011 to 2014, she was co-founder and CTO of a Research Spin-Off (in video enhancement technologies) at TandemLaunch Inc.

From 2014 to 2016, she was a scientific adviser at wrnch Inc.

She holds eight patents and has authored over 90 research papers. One of her noise reduction algorithms has been implemented in Siemens-AG TV chip sets. Her recent technologies for noise estimation, reduction, and quality assessment have been adopted by wrnch Inc. and branded by Red GIANT Inc. "Magic Bullet Denoiser III", 2016.

Her research interests are in video processing and its applications: video enhancement, video quality assessment, object segmentation & detection, object tracking, human pose estimation, crack detection.

She is an Associate Editor at the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, a senior member of IEEE, and member of OIQ.