Име:

Assoc. Prof. Pavlina Konstantinova

Националност:

Bulgarian

Семейно положение:

Married

Служебен адрес:

Acad. G.Bonchev Str., bl.25 A, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

Телефон:

(+359 2) 979 66 20

Факс:

(+359 2) 870 72 73

Eл.поща:

pavlina@bas.bg

EDUCATION

Secondary school: Politechnical School "D-r P.Beron", Svilengrad, Bulgaria, 1962.

University Degree: M.Sc. in Electronics - Computers, Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1967.

Ph.D.: in the area of Computer Aided Design of Electronic Circuits - Sofia, Bulgaria, 1987.

OTHERS

Languages: English and Russian.

Computer Skills: MS-DOS, MS WINDOWS, PASCAL, FORTRAN, C, HELIOS C, Borland C++ Builder, MS Visual C++, MatLab.

PROFESSIONAL RECORDS

  • Engineer at the laboratory for Control and measurement equipment and automatics at electric power station "Maritza-Iztok 2",Radnevo 1967-1969.
  • Chief of Programmer's team at Computer center - Radnevo, Bulgaria 1969-1971.
  • Assistant Researcher in Computing and Programming at the Institute of Radioelectronics, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1971-1976.
  • Researcher in Computer Aided Design of Electronic Circuits at the Institute of Special Electronics, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1976-1989.
  • Senior Researcher in Parallel Algorithms at the Center of Informatics and Computer Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1989 - 2009.
  • Assoc. Prof. in Department “Mathematical Modeling for Sensor Information Processing”, Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2009.

    • PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

  • Member of the “Bulgarian Union of Automatics and Informatics".
  • Member of the “ Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians”.
  • IEEE Member.

    • PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

  • Computer-Aided Transient and Steady State Analisys of Nonlinear Electronic Circuits - PhD.
  • Parallel Algorithms for Radar Data Processing.
  • Sensor information and image processing.

    • TEACHING

  • Supervision of M.Sc. Thesis: V. Arsova, M.Sc. Thesis, defended 1995.
  • Part time Assistant proffesor at TU Sofia : "Programming in C and C++" , from 1997 to 2003 and “Computer graphics” from 2002 to 2009.

    • LIST OF SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Behar V., P. Konstntinova, M. Nikolov, "Automated contour determination in ultrasound medical images", First International Conference on Modelling and Development of Intelligent Systems (MDIS 2009), October 22-25, 2009, Sibiu, Romania, Conference Proceedings ISSN 2067 - 3965, "Lucian Blaga" University Press, pp.23-32.
  • Dezert J., Tchamova A., Bojilov L., Konstantinova P., Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information Fusion, Collected Works, volume 3, Editors : Chapter 14, Florentin Smarandache & Jean Dezert, American Research Press, 2009, Performance evaluation of a tracking algorithm including attribute dataISBN-10: 1-59973-0.73-1, ISBN-13: 978-1-59973-073-8, pp.411-423.
  • Dezert J., F. Smarandache, A. Tchamova and P. Konstantinova, Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information Fusion, Collected Works, volume 3, Editors: Florentin Smarandache & Jean Dezert, American Research Press, 2009, Chapter 16, Target type tracking with DSmP, ISBN-10: 1-59973-0.73-1, ISBN-13: 978-1-59973-073-8, pp.437-454.
  • Konstantinova P., Nikolov M., Behar V., "Ultrasound Image Enhancement via Wavelet Thresholding", International Conference "Automatics and Informatics'08" , Sofia, October 1-4 2008, pp. IV-5:IV-8, ISSN 1313-1850.
  • Konstantinova P., V. Behar, M. Nikolov, "Comparison of Two Approaches for Ultrasound Image Segmentation" , Journal of Information Technologies and Control, No 3-4, 2008, pp36-44, ISSN 1312-2622.
  • Konstantinova P., D. Adam, D.Angelova and V. Behar, Contour Determination in Ultrasound Medical Images Using Interacting Multiple Mode Probabilistic Data Association Filter, Sixth International Conference on Numerical Methods and Applications - NM&A'06, August 20 - 24, 2006, Borovets, Bulgaria, Springer-Verlag, LNCS 4310, pp.628-636, 2007.
  • Konstantinova P, V. Behar, M. Nikolov, Performance Evaluation of Contour Determination Algorithm Using Conventional and Compounded Ultrasound Medical Images, IEEE John Vincent Atanasoff 2006 International Symposium on Modern Computing, Sofia, Bulgaria, 3-6 October 2006, pp.114-119.
  • Dezert J., A Tchamova, F. Smarandache, P. Konstantinova , “Target Type Tracking with PCR5 and Dempster’s rules: A Comparative Analysis”, The 9th International Conference on Information Fusion, Florence (Italy), 10-13 July 2006, Fusion’2006.
  • Dezert J., A. Tchamova, T. Semerdjiev, P. Konstantinova, Multitarget Tracking in Clutter based on Generalized Data Association: Performance Evaluation of Fusion Rules, Chapter in book “Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information Fusion”, Collected works, Editors: Florentin Smarandache & Jean Dezert , vol.2, 2006, American Research Press, Rehoboth, 2006.
  • Semerdjiev Tzv., Djerassi Em., Bojilov L., Konstantinova P., Sensor Data Processing for Target Tracking. Algorithms and Applications, SoftTrade, 2006. [in Bulgarian]
  • Dezert J., Tchamova A., Semerdjiev Tzv., Konstantinova P., Performance Evaluation of Fusion Rules For Multitarget Tracking in Clutter Based on generalized Data Association, The Eighth International Conference on Information Fusion, Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 25 - 29, 2005. http://www.Fusion2005.org/.
  • Tchamova A., J. Dezert, Tz, Semerdjiev, P. Konstantinova, “Generalized Data Association for Multitarget Tracking in Clutter”, chapter 14 in “Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information Fusion”, Editors: Smarandache F., J. Dezert, American Research Press, Rehoboth, 2004, pp.303-323.
  • Tchamova A., J. Dezert, Tz, Semerdjiev, P. Konstantinova, “Target Tracking with Generalized Data Association based on the General Dezert-Smarandache Rule of Combination”, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information Fusion, Stokholm, 28.6-1.7.2004, pp.392-399.
  • Konstantinova P., M. Nikolov, Tzv. Semerdjiev, "A Study of Clustering Applied to Multiple Target Tracking Algorithm", International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies - CompSysTech'2004, Rousse, Bulgaria, June 2004, pp. IIIA.22-1 - IIIA.22-6.
  • Udvarev Al., T. Semerdjiev, P. Konstantinova, "Efficient Solution and Performance Analisys of GNN data association Algorithm", International Conference Automatics and Informatics'04, 6-8 October 2004, Sofia, Bulgaria, pp 49-52.
  • Konstantinova Pavlina, Alexander Udvarev, Tzvetan Semerdjiev, “A Study Of A Target Tracking Algorithm Using Global Nearest Neighbor Approach”, International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies - CompSysTech’2003, Sofia, Bulgaria, 19-20 June2003, pp. III7-1 - III7-3.
  • Bojilov L., Alexiev K., Konstantinova P., “An algorithm unifying IMM and JPDA approaches”, Comptes rendus de L’Academie Bulgare des Sciences, vol 56, No 12, 2003, pp.53-60.
  • Kiril Alexiev, Pavlina Konstantinova ,“ Hypotheses Pruning in JPDA Algorithm for Multiple Traget Tracking in Clutter”, International Conference Automatic and Informatics’03, 6-8 October 2003, Sofia, Bulgaria, pp.45-48.
  • Bojilov Ljudmil, Pavlina Konstantinova ,“A Comparison Study of Two Approaches for Determining Ranked Set of Assignments for Multitarget Tracking”, International Conference Automatic and Informatics’03, 6-8 October 2003, Sofia, Bulgaria, pp.53-56.
  • Bojilov L., Alexiev K., Konstantinova P., “An Accelerated IMM JPDA Algorithm for Tracking Multiple Manoeuvering Targets in Clutter”, “Numerical Methods and Applications”, 5-th International Conference, Borovetz, Bulgaria, August 20-24, 2002, Eds. I.Dimov, I.Lirkov, Sv. Margenov, Z.Zlatev, Revised Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2542, Springer 2003, p.274-282.
  • Djerassi E., Konstantinova P., “Object-Oriented Environment for Assessing Tracking Algorithms”, Information and Security – An International Journal. Vol. 9: “Sensor Data Fusion”, Sofia, 2002, pp. 93-106.
  • Djerassi E., P. Konstantinova, “Tracking Algorithms Represented As Classes”, “Numerical Methods and Applications”, 5-th International Conference, Borovetz, Bulgaria, August 20-24, 2002, Eds. I.Dimov, I.Lirkov, Sv. Margenov, Z.Zlatev, Revised Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2542, Springer 2003, pp.283-290.
  • Konstantinova P., Djerassi E., “Object-Oriented Approach To Target Tracking”, Proceedings of International Conference on ”Basic Technologies For E-business BTEBIZ’2002”, Albena, Bulgaria, 15-18 Sept. 2002, pp.71-76.
  • Konstantinova P., Alexiev K., “A comparison of Two Hypothesis Generation Algorithms in JPDAF Multiple Target Tracking”, Bulgarian Computer Science Conference CompSysTech’2001, pp.II.18.1-II.18-5.
  • Manassiev L., Konstantinova P., Djerassi E., "Using Sequential Urand Random Generator in Distributed Random Generation", Proceedings of 11-th International conference "Systems for automation of engineering and research" - "SAER'97", pp.86-90.
  • Konstantinova P., "A study of the parallelism in Multiple Model Tracking Algorithm", Proceedings of the 12-th European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design ECCTD'95, vol.2, pp.863-866.