Ingemar J. Cox is Professor and Director of Research in the Department of Computer Science at

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, where he is Head of the Future Media Group, and he is Professor in the Machine Learning department at the University of Copenhagen. Between 2003 and 2008, he was Director of UCL's

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Campus. He has been a recipient of a

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Wolfson Fellowship (2002–2007). He received his B.Sc. from

and Ph.D. from

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. He was a member of the technical staff from 1984 until 1989 at AT&T Bell Labs at Murray Hill, where his research interests were focused on mobile robots. In 1989 he joined NEC Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, as a senior research scientist in the computer science division. At NEC, his research shifted to problems in computer vision and he was responsible for creating the computer vision group at NECI. He has worked on problems to do with stereo and motion correspondence and multimedia issues of image database retrieval and watermarking. In 1999, he was awarded the

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Best Paper Award (Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Area) for a paper he co-authored on watermarking. From 1997 to 1999, he served as Chief Technical Officer of Signafy, Inc., a subsidiary of NEC responsible for the commercialization of watermarking. Between 1996 and 1999, he led the design of NEC's watermarking proposal for DVD video disks and later collaborated with IBM in developing the technology behind the joint Galaxy proposal supported by Hitachi, IBM, NEC, Pioneer and Sony. In 1999, he returned to NEC Research Institute as a Research Fellow.Cox, Ingemar et al., ''Digital Watermarking and Steganography'', Morgan Kaufmann, 2007, p. 591. He is a Fellow of the

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. He is a member of th
UK Computing Research Committee
He was founding co-editor in chief of th
IEE Proc. on Information Security
He is co-author of a book entitled ''Digital Watermarking'' and its second edition ''Digital Watermarking and Steganography'', and the co-editor of two books, ''Autonomous Robots Vehicles'' and ''Partitioning Data Sets: With Applications to Psychology, Computer Vision and Target Tracking''. In 2019, Cox received the

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. As of October 2020, he has a Google h-index of 78 and an i10-index of 191, and has had 44,433 citations made of his work. He has 49 patentshttp://patent.ipexl.com/inventor/Ingemar_J_Cox_1.html Accessed On 15 May and 299 publications.

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