Science School of Barzhin/Zelensky/Lukin “Methods and algorithms for digital processing of wideband signals иand fields in multichannel oscillation systems, including communication systems, remote sensing for aerospace carriers and medical diagnostic systems" (Department of Information and Communication Technologies)
The school was founded in 1978 at the Department of Receiving and Transmission Devices of the Kharkiv Aviation Institute (now the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, National Aerospace University "Kharkiv Aviation Institute"). The school founder was Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor V. Ya. Barzhin (1924–1985), who was involved in the initial research of methods for forming multi-channel images. Since 1984, the school was headed by Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor O. O. Zelensky. Starting from 2000, one of the school’s directions was headed by Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor V.V. Lukin.
Barzhin Volodymyr Yakovich , Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Honored Inventor of the USSR, in 1975-1984 was working as the Head of the Department of Receiving and Transmission Devices at the Kharkov Aviation Institute. He trained over 40 candidates and three doctors of technical sciences, published over 400 scientific works, including six monographs. He was the author of 304 patents.
In the photo (from left to right): O. V. Totsky, B. F. Gorbunenko, O. O. Zelensky and V. Ya. Barzhin
In fact, V. Ya. Barzhyn worked with the department's employees O. O. Zelensky, F. F. Kolpakov and others since the early 70th of the last century, and on his initiative, the work was started on the issues of excitation of multi-frequency oscillations in multi-resonant precision systems. The result of these studies was not only the creation of a theory of formation and stabilization of multi-frequency oscillations in piezo-resonant oscillatory systems, a scientific basis for applied research, but also the development of samples of new equipment, which were performed on order of such organizations as JSV "Energy", Research Institute of Radio Engineering Measurements (Kharkiv) and others. Within the framework of this approach, new types of controlled generators were proposed, a wide class of measuring transducers was created that can simultaneously measure two or more parameters, for example, temperature and pressure, with accuracy characteristics that significantly exceeded similar single-frequency samples.
Under the supervision or for the assistance of Professor V. Ya. Barzhin, O. O. Zelensky and F. F. Kolpakov became Candidates of science, and then their theses were defended by V. F. Solodovnik, V. O. Shevelev, Ye. S. Kolesnik, K. D. Abramov, A. S. Vasilenko, Ye. O. Milkevich and many others.
Zelensky Oleksandr Oleksiyovich worked at KhAI for a period of 1966–2016, since 1984 he was the Head of the Department of Signal Reception, Transmission and Processing. The subject of his scientific activity is related to the methods of forming and processing high-frequency signals in oscillation systems. He published over 300 scientific papers and obtained 93 invention certificates and patents. He trained 13 candidates and three Doctors of technical sciences.
Work at the department in the field of high-frequency precision piezoelectric electronics was successfully developing, and it became unexpected that, at the end of the seventies, O. O. Zelensky began to focus on the tasks of formation of images of multi-frequency signals. The main scientific results, drawn directly from the 70th to the 80th , are associated with the design of methods for forming images of wide-band and multi-frequency signals for advanced applications in hydroacoustics, sound engineering, technical diagnostics, which were in the interests of such organizations as JSV "Uran", Institute of Applied Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, "Gidropribor" (Kyiv) and others.
Original methods were developed , which made it possible to significantly decrease the negative influence of destabilizing factors that reduce the quality of the formed images. Methods of forming images using phase holograms and in multi-beam (waveguide) signal propagation channels were developed as well as nonlinear methods of image reconstruction.
The basic principles of this approach were developed in the formation of optical images, which was found in the first publications of the Department employee’s abroad (O.V. Totsky in Czechoslovakia) and laid the foundation for development international contacts.
School-seminar at the sports camp “Ikar” (village Ribache, Crimea), 1988: M. M. Ivanov, P. V. Nemets, I. O. Rak, S. V. Khutornenko, V. V. Lukin, V. L. Sorokoput, O. O. Zelensky, O. Ye. Rudniev
At this time, the candidate 's dissertations of O. V. Totsky, B. F. Gorbunenko, P. V. Nemets, V. V. Lukin, V. A. Shvedov, V. Ya. Bezlyudko, V. G. Udachin, I. P. Zaikin and others were defended.
Accumulation of experience made it possible, starting from the end of the 1980th, to expand the tracking area to the acquisition of data from multi-channel radar systems of remote sensing. This was the Department's share of fundamental research on the coordination of several organizations of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Space Agency of Ukraine. Moreover, since at the first stage the methods of secondary compilation and interpretation of data from multi-channel remote sensing systems were developed, then gradually, as the problems were examined, the most important areas were expanded. Methods of nonlinear filtering, deriving surface reliefs from maps, recognizing objects, updating electrodynamic parameters of surfaces based on data from multiple channels began to develop intensively. Multichannel data processing based on third-order correlation functions and bispectral analysis, compression of multi-channel data, robust multi-channel similarity metrics were also designed. An international project was launched and executed for the Chinese Research Institute of Radio Wave Propagation (Qingdao, China).
Professors O. O. Zelensky and G. P. Kulemin in Beijing
Professor O. O. Zelensky also took part in the creation of the laboratory of functional diagnostics, which was later transformed into the Scientific and Technical Center of Radioelectronic and Medical Devices and Technologies (REMDT) of KhAI-Medica. Part of the department experience were implemented into medical diagnostic complexes, which were designed by KhAI-Medica over a period of 25 years. These complexes are widely sold in Ukraine, and they have been exported to many countries of the world. Specialists who began to work at REMDT Scientific and Technical Center now work in Switzerland, Finland and other countries.
O. O. Zelensky, V. V. Lukin, O. V. Totsky and others also promoted the development of international contacts. The agreement on scientific research cooperation was signed with the Technological University of Tampere (Finland), the University of Rennes 1 (France), and the University of Montenegro. Under the leadership of O. O. Zelensky, doctoral dissertations were defended by V. V. Lukin, O. V. Totsky and S. K. Pidchenko, Candidate dissertations wew defended by D. V. Fevralyov, I. V. Bunyaeva, M. M. Ponomarenko, O. P. Karyuk.
The department's tutors after the defenses of undergraduate student works together with Professor V. K. Volosyuk (Department 501) and the Department's former researcher V. P. Melnyk, who is currently with Nokia-Siemens (Helsinki, Finland)
Of great importance for the department scientific school was the fact that Professor O. O. Zelensky was openly interested in telecommunications specialties, which became the source for the development of such directions as image compression, acquisition and processing of multichannel electrocardiographic signals, bispectral modulation methods, energy distribution design in radio lines, etc.
Fedir Fedorovich Kolpakov worked at KhAI since 1966 till 2009. The subject of his scientific activity is related to the methods of generation and processing multi-frequency signals in oscillator systems. He published over 450 scientific papers and obtained over 120 invention certificates and patents, prepared more than Candidates of technical sciences.
Professor F. F. Kolpakov and one of his patents received
F. F. Kolpakov cooperated with Yu. S. Shmaliy (currently Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico, IEEE Fellow , author of more than 500 journal and conference articles, several books and 81 patents, works on the processing of statistical signal processing and estimation theory), M. M. Ivanov (currently Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, professor of the Department Personnel management and marketing of the Zaporizhzhya National University, the author of over 180 scientific and basic methodological works, 16 scientific monographs, he authors five patents); and V. Ye. Dobrova, Doctor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Professor at the National Pharmaceutical University, who has published over 190 scientific and scientific-methodological works, including over 70 articles, 48 textbook publications; she holds 10 patents, trained two Candidate of sciences.
Under the supervision of F. F. Kolpakov, the dissertations of Candidate of Science were defended by I. O. Rak, O. Ye. Rudnev, S. V. Khutornenko, M. M. Ivanov, A. A. Akulynychev, G. L. Khilchenko, V. A. Pysarev, A. A. Taranchuk and others.
Professors M. M. Ivanov, Yu. S. Shmaliy, V. Ye. Dobrova and S. K. Pidchenko
The work of F. F. Kolpakov and his colleagues contributed to the development of the theory of synthesis of invariant resonance systems for generating and converting radio signals to stabilize the frequency of generators, multiparametric sensors, medical devices, measuring systems for commercial applications.
Lukin Volodymyr Vasylyovich, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, graduated from the Kharkiv Aviation Institute in 1983, has been working at the Department since 1980. The topic of his doctoral work was the development of new methods for increasing the quality of multi-channel images based on the principles of locally adaptive robust filtering. Since 2016 is the Head of Department 504. He is IEEE Senior Member and Member of the European Microwave Association, a member of the program committee of the SPIE conference Nonlinear Image Processing in the USA. He established cooperation with Universities of Finland, France, Montenegro, Poland, Italy, Serbia, and other countries. He published more than 1000 scientific works, of which over 500 were co-authored with foreign scientistcs. He trained two Doctors of Technical Sciences and 15 Candidates of technical sciences and Doctors of Philosophy. He is in the top 100 Ukrainian scientists according to the number of citations.
With the participation of V. V. Lukin, such directions of scientific research were developed as robust filtering of one-dimensional signals, locally adaptive filtering and reconstruction of images, vector filtering. He participated in neural networks for local recognition and interpretation of remote sensing data. International projects were launched and executed for the National Polytechnic University (Mexico City, Mexico), Nokia Research Center (Tampere, Finland), and the Dormak company (Turkey). Projects were performed within the framework of international cooperation between Ukraine and France (three times, starting from 2013) and Poland (2020-2021). The project is currently being finalized within the framework of the IMPRESS-U program with the University of Delaware (USA) and the Western Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin (Poland). Tutors of the Department work with this university within the framework of the Erasmus program.
Professor V.V. Lukin was the supervisor for the doctoral dissertation of M.M. Ponomarenko (currently working in Finland) and S.S. Kryvenko, candidate's dissertations of V. P. Melnyk, A. O. Kurekin (performing in Plymouth Marine Laboratory , UK), O. M. Dolia (works in London), O. V. Tsymbal (works in a private company in Finland), O. O. Roenko, O. M. Zemlyachenko (is with Apple , USA) and O. V. Naumenko (is with IT-companies in Kharkiv), as well as S. K. Abramov, S. S. Kryvenko, M. S. Zryakhov, V. V. Abramova, O. S. Rubel, A.S. Rubel, B.V. Kovalenko, who are currently tutors at the Department.
It is significant that V. P. Melnik, M. M. Ponomarenko and O. V. Tsymbal defended PhD these in Tampere University of Technology (Finland), and M. L. Uss - in France (with honor). The H-index of V. V. Lukin is equal to 36 in Scopus.
Professors V.V. Lukin and B. Vozel at the hall for teleconferences at Lannion where some faculties of the University of Rennes 1 (France) are located
Books published in foreign countries that contain chapters prepared by the Department members
Totsky Oleksandr Volodymyrovych, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, graduated from Kharkiv University named after O. M. Gorky (today the Kharkiv National University named after V. N. Karazin) in 1974, has been working at the Department since 1977. He published over 230 scientific works, of which over 110 were co-authored with foreign partners. He trained one Candidate of technical sciences (Associate Professor of the Department V.V. Naumenko) and two PhDs (P.O. Molchanov who defended the dissertation in Finland and now is with Nvidia company, USA, and O.G. Viunytskyi who is Senior Tutor of the Department 504).
O. V. Totsky made a contribution to the development of the theory of forming multi-channel acoustic images, reconstruction of optical images; from the end of the 80th of the last century after completing his internship in Olomouc (Czechoslovakia) in the laboratory of Professor J. Perzina he is working on the third order (bispectral) processing of signals and images.
Finally, the efforts of O. V. Totsky thoroughly elaborated the theory and developed the methods of processing non-Gausian signals against the background of vegetation in radio-technical object detection systems using different bispectral properties of signals in conditions of uncertainty. A methodology has been created for the acquisition of non-stationary signals and non-Gausian processes in radio engineering systems based on bispectrum and third-order moment functions.
Professor O.V. Totsky substantiated ways to increase the range resolution in radar systems for observing surface objects against the background of interference caused by backscattering of an electromagnetic wave reflected from the sea surface using the bispectral estimation method, and also proposed a method for increasing the probability of recognizing aircraft using new robust informative features retrieved using bispectral estimation of secondary radiation parameters in broadband radars.
O. V. Totsky created a new innovative method of encoding based on the third-order correlation function of the bispectrum, developed bispectral methods for reconstruction of digital images from additive and multiplicative interference. For his inventions, Professor O. V. Totsky received several patents of Ukraine. Thanks to him, the cooperation of the department with organizations and scientists from the Czech Republic, Finland, Spain, and the Netherlands developed. Through the efforts of O. V. Totsky, O. O. Zelensky, and V. V. Naumenko, books in English were published.
Monograph prepared by specialists of the department
Ponomarenko Mykola Mykolayovych , Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, graduated from the Kharkiv Aviation Institute in 1993, was working at the Department from 1990 to 2016. He published over 350 scientific works, of which over 200 were co-authored with foreign partners. He trained two Candidates of technical sciences (Associate Professor of the Department O. I. Yeremeev and Senior Tutor Kozhemyakina N. V.). He defended a PhD thesis in Finland and now is working there. M. M. Ponomarenko has developed the theoretical implementation bases, methods, algorithms and software for the full-reference and no-reference assessment of image visual quality for further analysis, secondary sampling, recognition, interpretation of multi-channel remote sensing data, for compression of multi-channel signals for aerospace, medical diagnostic and other information and imaging systems. He created highly effective methods for searching color images for similarity in the databases of large size, recovery the surface relief for isogram maps, lossless and lossy encoding of signals and images. Professor M. M. Ponomarenko has got several patents (including Finnish ones), he was the initiator of the creation of the XAI rating system, executed projects for the Nokia Research Center and the Huawei company.
With the initiative of M. M. Ponomarenko and mainly due to his efforts, databases TID 2008 and TID 2013 where created, which were the largest in the world for certain periods of time. These databases are widely used by scientists who work on the principles of objective assessment of image quality, study drawbacks and failures of visual quality metrics, analyse image quality. Publications that describe these databases have been cited more than 3,000 times.
Professors Lukin V.V., Ponomarenko M.M. and Totsky O.V. in Finland
Sergey Stanislavovych Kryvenko, who defended his doctoral dissertation in November 2025, graduated from the National University of Radioelectronics, became a post-graduate student of KhAI in 2008, and then a senior scientific researcher of our Department. He published over 100 scientific works, of which over 50 were co-authored with foreign scientists. He developed methods of adaptive filtering and compression of multichannel images and prediction of their effectiveness for remote sensing systems and medical diagnostics devices, including those based on artificial intelligence, algorithms and software for the ccorresponding systems. He is IEEE Senior Member, Head of the EMBS section of IEEE in Ukraine.
Senior researcher Kryvenko S.S. in France
The school is steadily developing, many of its graduates work or have undergone internships at universities in Finland, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, and took part in the work of organizing committees of international conferences and editorial boards of leading journals, were or are members of various academies, fellows of the V. Pinchuk Foundation. Representatives of the school gave plenary speeches at numerous international conferences, are the authors of over 30 monographs or their chapters, and are patent holders in several countries. Today's intensive research is being carried out by young specialists from the department. It is planned to complete the doctoral dissertation of V.O. Makarichev. Under the supervision of S. K. Abramov, the dissertation of R. O. Kozhemyakin was defended. Active research is carried out by S.S. Kryvenko, Associate Professor V.O. Makarichev (processing of data based on atomic functions) and Associate Professor M. S. Zryakhov (automatic providing of the required characteristics in lossy compression), Associate Professors I. K. Vasilyeva and G. A. Proskura (intelligent methods of processing and classification of multi-channel images), Associate Professor V. V. Abramova (robust automatic methods for assessing noise characteristics in images), Associate Professor V. V. Naumenko (bispectral methods of image processing), Associate Professor O. I. Eremeev (design of combined metrics of visual quality and their testing), Associate Professor O. S. Rubel (use of machine learning methods in image filtering), Associate Professor S.V. Khutornenko (development of devices based on quartz resonators), Senior researchers A. S. Rubel and O. G. V’yunitsky (processing of multi-channel medical signals), Senior researchers N. V. Kozhemyakina (adaptive data coding) and B. V. Kovalenko (data compression based on the BPG encoder ). In 2023, the dissertation of Doctor of Philosophy was defended by Chinese postgraduate student Li Fangfang (a two-stage approach to image compression with required quality).
Two youth state budget Projects and dozens of state budget Projects have been executed. Well, all our minds are for the further development of our scientific school. On its own side, the development of the scientific school has a positive impact on the initial process. For 15 years already, the department was preparing undergraduate students for the programs “Information Communications” and “Technologies and Means of Telecommunication” for the specialty 172 “Telecommunications and radio engineering". During this period, over 400 bachelors and 200 masters were trained. Many of them became Candidates of science (A. Linkova, O. Kharchenko, O. Gora, A. Vorobyov) and work in the institutions of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the companies of Kharkov, and A. V. Vorobyov is Associate Professor of the Department 504). The preparation of students is supported by development of the material and technical base of the Department, e.g., Laboratory of the CISCO Academy, a world leader in the field of corporate interconnection and telecommunications equipment. The CISCO Academy Program has a comprehensive training in computer and communication engineers allowing the possibility to obtain certificates that are recognized in the whole world.
CISCO equipment laboratory
Students of our specialty have opportunities to study in other countries within the current mobility programs. V. Oliynyk got his master's degree at the University of Nantes (France), majoring in robotics and computer science systems. At the end of 2020, V. Oliynyk, already a graduate student in our Department, took part in the hackathon TADHack Global. He moved to the hackathon in the Netherlands (Rotterdam) with the project called Automaton. His project was recognized as the best out of 10 winners of local competitions.
V. Oliynik in Nantes and Rotterdam
Many students of the department, within the framework of academic mobility, have been or are staying at universities in Portugal, Poland, Italy, Latvia, contributing to the further development of international scientific research.