Hojatollah Yeganeh

Dr. Hojat Yeganeh is the Principal Video Architect and Research Lead at IMAX. He has worked on developing perceptual quality metrics for over a decade, has published technical journal and conference papers, and filed several patents. He contributed numerous innovative features to the SSIMPLUS metric, including banding detection, the structural fidelity metric for tone-mapped video, HDR video quality assessment, learning-based source quality assessment, etc. Dr. Yeganeh is a Senior Member of IEEE and holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and his contributions to the field have earned him a 2020 Technology and Engineering Emmy award for leadership in video encoding optimization.