Europass Curriculum Vitae Personal information First names and Surname Address IRINA MIHAELA CIORTAN Str. Prevederii nr. 14-18/6, sector 3, Bucuresti Telephone(s) Mobile: +40 746 188 699 E-mail irina.ciortan@gmail.com Nationality Romanian Date of birth 06 November 1989 Gender Female Desired occupational field Multimedia Technologies, Image Processing, Cultural Heritage Work Experience Dates (from to) November 2015 onwards University of Verona Department of Informatics Researcher My activity focuses on improving the visual computing techniques in particular Reflectance Transformation Imaging for performing material characterization of cultural heritage objects. This research position belongs to the Scan4Reco project (2015-2018) within the Horizon2020 programme. Dates (from to) March 2015 September 2015 Norwegian Colour and Visual Computing Laboratory Early Stage Researcher I implemented a workflow on Spectral Imaging and Reproduction of Paintings for a Marie Curie Research Fellowship, Colour Printing 7.0. Dates (from to) November 2014 December 2014 Page 1/5 - Curriculum vitae of Norwegian Colour and Visual Computing Laboratory Visiting Science Researcher
I contributed to the Quality Evaluation and Analysis of Multispectral Systems of Cultural Heritage Objects within the Round Robin Test project of the Color and Space in Cultural Heritage programme. Dates (from to) October 2013 October 2014 Route 66, Brasov, Romania Image Processing Analyst I worked in the Traffic Sign Recognition team, developing and testing image processing algorithms and machine learning techniques (detection and classification). Dates (from to) January 2013 July 2013 Laboratoire Hubert Curien, Saint-Etienne, France Research Intern I conducted research on the influence of color on saliency and visual attention on a large dataset of videos. I collaborated with other research laboratories and proposed a computational saliency model focused on the color attribute. Dates (from to) May 2011 July 2011 IBM, Bucharest, Romania Computer Science, Information Technology Software Developer Intern I developed and tested a Personal Contact Manager in Eclipse Rich Client Platform. Dates (from to) October 2008 June 2011 ADVICE Students Organisation, Bucharest, Romania NGO IT & Online Executive Website development, design and maintenance Back-end and front-end programming Implemented the Wordpress Content Management System Project management Education Dates September 2011 July 2013 Erasmus Mundus Master of Science in Color in Informatics and Media Technology Core subjects: Color Science, Photonics, Algorithms and design, Pattern Recognition, Colorimetry, Spectral Science, Image Processing, Video Processing, Context data-based indexing and retrieval, Game Technology Master Thesis: Influence of color and saliency on visual attention in videos (Grade B) Page 2/5 - Curriculum vitae of
University Jean-Monnet (France), University of Granada (Spain), Gjøvik University College (Norway) and University of Eastern Finland (Finland) Dates October 2008 July 2011 Bachelor of Science in Informatics July 2011 Core subjects: Algorithms in Programming, Statistics, Data Structures, Procedural Programming (C), Object Oriented Programming(C++), Multimedia Techologies, Management of Databases Systems, Windows Applications using C#, Software Packages Bachelor Thesis: Image Processing Techniques and Face Detection Technologies using Viola-Jones Algorithm (Grade A) Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies Dates September 2004 June 2008 High School Graduate - Mathematics, Physics and Informatics - Foreign languages: Intensive English, French - I obtained a Certificate for Professional Competences in Computers Mihai Viteazul National College, Bucharest Training Courses Dates Place Title Qualification 28 November 2010 01 December 2010 Sofia, Bulgaria The Art of Robotics in Youth Work Youthpass Certificate for Non-Formal Education, ID: VC2R-KCW5-6GLY-81TS http://www.youthpass.eu/en/qualitycontrol/ Media Technology, Computer Vision, Robotics I delivered a presentation on Computer Vision Applications during the Computer Space Festival on the same panel with international speakers activating in the Computer Art field. Student Computer Art Society Dates Place Title Qualification 07 December 2009 12 December 2009 Konstancin Jeziorna, Poland Wind of Change the Creativity and Innovation in Youth Projects Youthpass Certificate for Non-Formal Education, ID: AMF5-XMJR-4P5G-V945 I experimented methods for boosting creativity and finding innovative solutions for specific problem scenarios. Polish National Agency of the Youth in Action Programme Personal Skills Mother Language Other Languages Page 3/5 - Curriculum vitae of Romanian
Self-assessment Understanding Speaking Writing European level (*) Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production English C2 Proficient User C2 Proficient User C2 Proficient User C2 Proficient User C2 Proficient User French B2 Independent User B2 Independent User B2 Independent User B2 Independent User B2 Independent User Spanish B2 Independent User B2 Independent User B2 Independent User B2 Independent User B2 Independent User (*) Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Social skills and competences Intercultural skills: I have gained intercultural skills during my MSc studies, by participating to the training courses above listed as a representative of the ADVICE Students Organisation Team work: I have been involved in many team projects, the most representative and recent examples being: -The Olympus Project Contest, organized by Olympus Company in cooperation with CIMET Master consortium. The aim of the project was to provide solutions for a better color appearance match between the image viewed though the eyepiece of a microscope and the image displayed on an LCD monitor. -The Antiplagiarism Detection Project developed in Java programming language along with other 4 colleagues from my Faculty under the coordination of the professors from the Computer Science Department (Cătălin Boja, Andrei Toma, Mihai Doinea); my individual task was to analyse the files submitted on a user platform and generate them to a parsing form - Video-Sidebar Add-On for Mozilla Firefox Browser developed with other 3 students during ROSEdu Summer of Code 2010; languages used: HTML, Javascript, CSS; the addon is compatible with all the versions of the browser, except the 4.0 version Computer skills and competences My competences in computing have been acquired both in school and through selfstudy. - Advanced knowledge of the following programming languages: C (1 year), C++ (3 years), C# (1 year), Matlab (3 years), Java (1 year), MySQL (3 years), PL/SQL (1 year) - Advanced skills user of the following software packages: SPSS Additional information AWARDS -I was awarded an Erasmus Mundus scholarship type B for my Master studies. -My team was awarded the 2nd place for the Project Contest organized by the CIMET consortium in collaboration with the Olympus company in 2012. -The Video Sidebar Add-on for MozillaFirefox was awarded a Honourable Mention in November 2010 during ITfest a computer science festival organized by the Union for Students of Cybernetics Page 4/5 - Curriculum vitae of
PUBLICATIONS Irina M. Ciortan, Hilda Deborah, Sony George, Jon Yngve Hardeberg, Color and Hyperspectral Image Segmentation for Historical Documents, Digital Heritage International Congress 2015 Sony George, Irina M. Ciortan, Jon Yngve Hardeberg, Evaluation of Hyperspectral Imaging Systems for Cultural Heritage Applications based on a Round Robin Test, MCS at AIC 2015 Irina M. Ciortan, Éric Dinet, Alain Tremeau, Influence of color on visual saliency in short videos, accepted to ICIP, 2014 Panagiotis Alexandros, Irina M. Ciortan, Ailin Chen, Oriel Frigo, Antonio Pelegrina, Basic and advanced colorimetry methods for displaying microscope image appearance - Accepted to the 12th International AIC Congress, 2013 Page 5/5 - Curriculum vitae of