Ms Katariina Mahkonen successfully defended her PhD thesis

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MSc (Tech) Katariina Mahkonen successfully defended her PhD thesis "Efficient and Robust Methods for Audio and Video Signal Analysis".

Mahkonen PhD thesis: Link. The thesis develops novel efficient and effective event detection methods for video and audio data. The particular novelty is a new algorithm to make a fast decision cascade using Boolean combinations of available detectors.

The opponents in the thesis examination committee were Professor Vesa Valimaki and Dr. Jorma Laaksonen from Aalto University, Finland.