Murielle Kirkove holds a master's degree in Mathematics and a PhD in image processing applied to Astrophysics and Medical Imaging. From 2003 to 2007, she was an assistant in the Medical Imaging unit of the Physics department of the University of Liège. From 2007 to 2012, she worked as a scientific architect in the research unit of the Euresys company of Liege. She obtained half-time contracts for two departments of the University of Liège, one in the Signal Processing Laboratory of the Liège Space Center (CSL) and the other in the Signal and Image Exploitation Laboratory (INTELSIG) at the Montefiore Institute. She has been working full-time at the CSL since 2015.

At INTELSIG, she developed signal processing algorithms for drowsiness monitoring for the IGLESIAS project. At the CSL, she worked for the Signal Processing lab in the the field of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging (contribution to projects TopSAR Processor, S1 Sigma_Naught Processor, Data Reader, SNAP Plugins), SYMPA and SMAIAD), for the Lasers & NDT lab in the field of non-destructive testing using laser techniques (contribution to the projects AOC, Teccoma and Tera4All), for the Electronics lab in the field of the X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry (contribution to the projects ECWALI and PLANUM) and for the Ooptics lab in the field of instrument calibration (contribution to project FLEX).

Her privileged fields of expertise are signal processing (signal restoration (denoising, deconvolution, compressive sensing), inverse problems, wavelet analysis and machine learning) and software development in signal processing applied to physical problems in various domains. These problems concern in particular the following acquisition methods: the astronomical imagery, the scintigraphic imagery, the electroencephalography, the SAR imagery, the thermography, the interferometry, the shearography, the digital holography and the spectrometry.

Some external collaborators:

Universities
- Belgium - UAntwerp: IOB
- Belgium - ULiege - Faculty of Sciences: Département de Mathématiques, GHER
- Belgium - ULiege - Faculty of Applied Sciences: Computer Vision, Signal Processing and Robotics, Gemme, Systmod
- Belgium - UCLouvain - School of Engineering: ICTEAM
- Pays-bas - Twente University: ITC
Centres de recherche
- Belgium - Africa Museum: GeoRiskA
Centres industriels
- Argentina: Conae
- Belgium: V2i, Vito, Vitrociset
- Luxembourg: LuxSpace

Research field

Techniques d'imagerie et traitement d'images
Informatique générale
Analyse de Fourier
Analyse complexe
Analyse mathématique
Analyse numérique
Intelligence artificielle
Programmation du calcul numérique
Statistique appliquée
Imagerie médicale, radiologie, tomographie
Systèmes d'information géographique

Duties or mandates

Specialist in signal processing