Mykola Ponomarenko is Senior Research Fellow in Tampere University, and Professor in National Aerospace University of Ukraine.
Mykola Ponomarenko got a diploma in computer sciences (1993) from National Aerospace University of Ukraine, Candidate of Technical Sciences degree (2004, in remote sensing area) from Highest Attestation Commission of Ukraine, Doctor of Technology degree (2005, in image compression area) from Tampere University of Technology,
Doctor of Technical Sciences degree (2012, in telecommunications area) from Department of Scientist Attestation of Ukraine, and Professor diploma (2018) from Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
He is the author of further 250 scientific papers.
Image and video compression (DCT based compression, fractal based compression, using partition schemes, multichannel image compression, noisy image compression)
Image and video denoising (nonlinear robust denoising, local adaptive filters, DCT based denoising, multichannel image denoising, automatic synthesis of filters for a given quality criterion)