George Freeman, PEng

George Freeman is an Adjunct Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo.

His research focuses on signal processing for digital communications, the development of optimal lossless data compression algorithms, and applications in storage and recognition for speech and image coding.

Beyond his research achievements, Dr. Freeman has been honored with the Dedicated Service Award from the Canadian Association of University Teachers, recognizing his outstanding service to academic staff associations.

• Signal processing, Wavelet analysis, Medical image processing, Speech recognition, Data-compression,

• 1984, Doctorate PhD, University of Waterloo, Ontario
• 1979, Bachelor's BASc, University of Waterloo, Ontario

• Mohamed, Samar Samir and Li, JM and Salama, Magdy MA and Freeman, George H and Tizhoosh, Hamid R and Fenster, A and Rizkalla, K, An automated neural-fuzzy approach to malignant tumor localization in 2D ultrasonic images of the prostate, Journal of digital imaging, 411, 2011
• Mohamed, SS and Li, J and Salama, Magdy MA and Freeman, G, Prostate tissue texture feature extraction for suspicious regions identification on TRUS images, Journal of digital imaging, 503, 2009
• Fok, Stanley and Wang, David WL and Ni, Liya and Freeman, George, A Pilot Study of Video Compression Techniques for Stereoscopic Telepresence Applications, Presence, 139, 2009
• Alajlan, Naif and Kamel, Mohamed S and Freeman, George H, Geometry-based image retrieval in binary image databases, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 1003, 2008
• Alajlan, Naif and El Rube, Ibrahim and Kamel, Mohamed S and Freeman, George, Shape retrieval using triangle-area representation and dynamic space warping, Pattern Recognition, 1911, 2007