Florin ROTARU
 
Office address :

Institute of Computer Science
Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch
Boulevard Carol I, 22A, cod 700506, Iasi, Romania
phone: +40 232 241708
e-mail: florin.rotaru@iit.academiaromana-is.ro
Date of birth:
  18 ianuarie 1953, Bucuresti
Education and training:
september 1972 - july 1977 University Politehnica of Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers
september 1992 - july 1998 PhD in Computer Science, Universitatea Tehnica "Gh. Asachi" Iasi, Ph. D. Thesis Title: "Contributii la dezvoltarea metodelor de recunoasterea formelor cu aplicatii in analiza imaginilor"
september 1998 – september 1999 Postdoctoral school Analysis of the seabottom in three dimension using sonar data – University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal, Contract with The Comission of European Communities, MAST3 Programme.
Professional Experience:
december 1984 - may 1990 Institutul pentru Tehnica de Calcul, Filiala Iasi, researcher in "Image Processing and 2D Pattern Recognition"
may 1990 – october 1999
october 2005 - present 		Academia Romana- Filiala Iasi, Institutul de Informatica Teoretica, CP III, "- 2D Signal Processing"
october 2003 – february 2005 Braintech Inc, North Vancouver, Canada; R&D Vision Scientist, Robot Vision applications
1996 -1998 SYGET (SYstem de Gestion Territoriale) – Image processing system for RADAR data analysis - Iasi, Romania
Inventions
  Sistem de achizitia si prelucrarea imaginilor cu microprocessor Z8001, Patent #98826 din 13 iunie 1989
Papers published
  1. "Improving 3D visualisation interactivity by using octrees", R.E. Loke, R. Lam, F. Rotaru and J.M.H. du Buf., Proceedings of Workshop on Medical Imaging, Aveiro, Portugal, Oct. 1999, pp. 19-23., Electronica e Telecomunicacoes, Revista do Departamento de Electronica e Telecomunicacoes da Universidade de Aveiro, Vol. 3, No. 2, October 2000, pp. 167-172.
2. "Hierarchical approximation and polygonisation of 3D scattered data points", R. E. Loke, F. Rotaru and J.M.H. du Buf, Technical Report UALG-ISACS-TR07, University of Algarve, Portugal, January 1999.
3. "Tehnici de vizualizare 3D", F.Rotaru, C.Vicol, C.Nita, S.Bejinariu, M.Roman, Raport de cercetare, iunie 2000, IIT Iasi.
4. "3D Surfaces Simplification Algorithm", S.Bejinariu, M.Roman, F.Rotaru, ECIT 2002, Iasi, Romania, July, 2002
5. "Tri-dimensional reconstruction from two views", F.Rotaru, D.Galea, S. Bejinariu, , I.Pavaloi, A.Ciobanu, ECIT 2006, Iasi, September 2006.