Hojat Yeganeh

Hojat Yeganeh received his PhD from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2014. Following his graduation, he joined SSIMWAVE, where he played a pivotal role in advancing perceptual video quality assessment. He is currently the Senior Manager of the Data and Image Science team at IMAX, leading innovative research in data and video technology.

He has tackled a diverse range of challenges in the video industry, including HDR video quality assessment, tone-mapped video quality assessment, banding detection, video enhancement through smart dithering, no-reference quality metrics, HDR-to-SDR and SDR-to-HDR workflows, film grain similarity measurement and synthesis, and frame rate conversion.

His contributions to the field of perceptual video quality assessment earned him an Emmy Award, recognizing his impact on the industry. Hojat has also published numerous research papers and holds dozens of patents.