Bovik

Bovik is a surname. It appears in various countries and is most often associated with academic and professional figures who publish under that name.

Alan C. Bovik is a prominent figure in image and video processing. He is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. His research covers image and video processing, quality assessment, and computer vision.

In collaboration with others, Bovik contributed to widely used image quality metrics. Notably, he co-authored the Structural Similarity Index (SSIM) with Zhou Wang, Hamid R. Sheikh, and Eero P. Simoncelli, a metric widely used to assess image quality. His work also includes blind image quality assessment, video quality assessment, denoising, and compression.

As a surname, Bovik has limited public usage beyond biographical and bibliographic contexts. There is no single widely cited origin or meaning for the name.