AbstractThe ITU has posted a call for new PhD Students. The application deadline is October 2nd 2006. Applicants interested in a PhD scholarship with The Image Group can find a list of project proposals here.
Besides the general call there is also a vacant PhD scolarship in within medical image analysis announced here. Application deadline is August 23rd 2006. <\p>
The 9th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention will be hosted by the Image Analysis Research Group at ITU, October 1-6, 2006. Deadline for submission of papers is March 10, 2006.
Anders Walther defended his Master's thesis on Thursday June 29. Anders is candidate number 1000 to graduate from the ITU. The title of the thesis is "AI for real-time strategy games - Development of an AI for a rel-time strategy game capable of learning new strategies".
On Thursday December 15. Lewis Griffin, Computer Science, University College London, will give a talk from 11:00 to 12:00. Room number will be announced later. The title of the talk will be Natural Images Have a Tendency Towards Purely 1-D Local Variation.
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Junko Tomita and Xijie Jacobsen will defend their master's thesis on Wednesday, November 30, at 9:30 in room 3A18. The title of the thesis is Identification of billboards in a handball game. The defense will be in English. All interested are welcome.
Lars Schjødt defends his master's thesis, Diffusion Based Photon Mapping, on Monday the 28th of November at 1000 in Aud. 4 (room 4A60). The defense will be given in Danish.
Zulfiqar Malik Hyder will defend his master's thesis on Super Resolution and Transformation of 2D Images. The defense will take place on Friday, November 25, in room 2A20.
Michael Egmont-Petersen will give a presentation on Discovery of regulatory connections in microarray data based on a paper by M. Egmont-Petersen, W. de Jonge, A. Siebes. The talk will take place in room 4A05 at 14:30.
Martin Løbner-Olesen and Mikkel Fischer will defend their thesis entitled Using Multiple Feature Selection Methods in Ensembles on Tuesday, September 27, at 1300 in room 3A12. You are welcome to come and hear their interesting talk, which will be given in Danish.
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Jonas Lind from IO Interactive will hold a guest lecture from 900 till 1100 in Auditorium 2. This lecture is part of the AI in Game Programming curriculum. If you are interested you are most welcome to attend it.
The talk is entitled AI and Hitman and will take a closer look at Artificial Intelligence and game creation from an IOI perspective. It will attempt to provide some insight into the workflows of making computer games, and will discuss how IOI copes with the demand for smart and lifelike AI, within the boundaries of stealth-based action games.
While the members of the MICCAI board visit Copenhagen to organize the upcoming MICCAI 2006 conference, a seminar is arranged at ITU on August 25, 2005. The seminar takes starts with oral presentations in auditorium 2 from 9:00 and is followed by poster presentations in the 4D hallway from 14:30. Participation is free.
David Gustavsson from CellaVision visited the Image Analysis Research Group to give a talk on Image processing and feature extraction in haematology. The talk took place in the 4D hallway at 13:00–14:00.
Kim Steenstrup Pedersen did stand-up research at this years Roskilde Festival.
Nanna Glerup will defend her Ph.D. dissertation called Asymmetry Measures in Medical Image Analysis at 13:00 in Auditorium 2. Get the abstract or the whole dissertation in Publications.
We had two visitors this morning giving the following talks:
Daniel Rueckert (Imperial College, London): Medical Image Registration in Healthcare, Biomedical Research and Drug Discovery.
Gabor Szekely (ETH, Zurich): Modeling and simulation of tissue formation and growth.
Aditya Tatu will talk about his ideas for a possible Ph.D. position. The talk will be at 10:00, room is still to be announced.
Together with the Technical University of Eindhoven the Image Analysis Research Group at the IT University of Copenhagen organized the first International Workshop on Deep Structure, Singularities and Computer Vision.
Of cause a lot of researchers from the Image Analysis research group here at ITU attended the workshop.
Arish Qazi whos is working with the Philips Research Laboratories in Hamburg will present his work. He has been working with both Iris Recognition and Text Detection. The presentation will take place in 4D01 (the 4D hallway) on Monday, May 23, at 11:00-11:50.
DR plans to start broadcasting HDTV very soon. Most material will be recorded in HD, but all older material is stored in the lower quality and has to be up-converted to HDTV for broadcasting.
Current work done in the Image Analysis Group by Francois Lauze, Sune Keller and Mads Nielsen on the use of PDEs in video conversion can help DR improve the quality compared to that of other methods available for this process.
A US patent application has been filed by ITU on the technology and an ongoing co-work with CCBR is exploring the use of the PDE-technology in the home cinema market.
For more information on the project, please contact Sune Keller (sunebio@itu.dk) or Francois Lauze (francois@itu.dk).
The medical image research done by Ph.D. students at ITU and the collaboration with CCBR is mentioned in today's issue of Berlingske Tidende. [Article in Danish]
Thomas Hansen from DK-Technologies will visit ITU. At our lunch meeting he will give a presentation of current projects and possibilities for collaboration and student projects. More information on the Tuesday Talks page.
Andreas Rishede Hyllested and Martin Wallengren Nilsson will defend their Master's thesis, Semi-Automatic Foreground Extraction for Natural Images, at 13:00 in room 4A20. The defence and the examination will be held in Danish. The defence is public and everyone is welcome to attend.
Mariana is visiting the group from Romania where she did her Master's thesis on detection of texture imperfections in an industrial setting. She will tell about the project at 11:00–12:00 in room 3A08.
In the biweekly informal Foundations of Image Analysis meeting, which takes place at 11:00 - 12:00 in room 4A09, prof. Lewis Griffin from University College London will speek on the following topic:
Geometric Texton Theory: The 1-D, 2nd-order jet
The three Ph.D. students Michael Lund, Lars Arne Conrad Hansen, and Jenny Folkesson in the Image Analysis Research Group at ITU has got their articles for the upcoming SPIE Medical Imaging 2005 conference (San Diego, 12-17 february) accepted. All articles are about medical image analysis and are made in cooperation with other members of the research group as well as with out industrial cooperator CCBR.
The Image Analysis Research Group at ITU has signed an industrial collaporation agreement with the private research institute CCBR about research in medical image analysis focusing on osteo-arthritis, breast cancer, atherosclerotic plaque, and osteoporosis. The project is entitled CATIA: Clinical Applications and Theory of Image Analysis. The collaporation will ensure the research group four Post.Docs and one Ph.D.—all for the next three years and fully paid by CCBR.
Joachim Weickert will give a talk entitled Motion Computation in Image Sequences with Variational Methods. The talk will place at 10 a.m. in Auditorium 1
Francois B. Lauze will defend his Ph.D. dissertation entitled Computational Methods for Motion Recovery, Motion Compensated Inpainting, and Applications. The defence will take place in Auditorium 1 at 1300. Get the abstract and the full text dissertation on the Dissertations page.
Nir Sochen will give a talk in section 4D at 1300-1345
entitled The Beltrami flow over manifold
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This week, the Image Analysis group from ITU presented two papers at MICCAI in St. Malo France. The first was by Marleen de Bruijne and Mads Nielsen, both from ITU, on a segmentation method. The other was by Erik Dam in collaboration with researchers from University of North Carolina on a shape model construction method.
Lars Arne Conrad-Hansen will defend his M.Sc. thesis entitled Towards an Automated Quantization of Atherosclerotic Plaque using 2D Lumbar X-rays. The defence will take place in room 3A18 at 1330. The examinator is Ass. Prof. Rasmus Larsen, IMM, DTU.
Four members of the group talks at the 2004 Copenhagen-Utrecht-Eindhoven Symposium (CUES), which will be held on Monday September 13. CUES takes place in Utrecht at the University Medical Center.
On Tuesday September 14 at 1245, Marco Loog will defend his Ph.D. dissertation in the Academiegebouw (University Hall) of Universiteit Utrecht.
Informatics and Mathematical modelling, DTU, will host a mini-seminar on image analysis Tuesday, September 14th, 15:15-17:00 due to the visits by Senior Lecturer Tim Cootes and Research Director Hervé Delingette.
The seminar will take place in room 133, building 321. Registration is not
needed. View program
At 10 AM in room 4A22, Ditte-Maria Christiansen and Peter Pilgaard Rasmussen will defend their M.Sc. thesis entitled Billedsegmentering ved hjælp af grafsnit. The defence will be in Danish.
Monday 2004-08-30 at 1230-1300 Mithun Nagendra Prasad will give a talk on his work. If you are interested in a one-on-one discussion afterwards please contact Martin Lillholm. Mithun Nagendra Prasad is a PhD Student at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, Australia. His PhD topic is Specialty Computerized Diagnosis of Medical Images through Artificial Intelligence techniques.
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From today on Martin Lillholm can call himself Doctor of Philosophy. His dissertation entitled On Spatial Metamerism in Computational Vision is available from the Theses page.
The two MMT students Andreas Hyllested and Martin Nilsson participated with a poster at the Vision Days which is a yearly, three day workshop at DTU. They won the best poster award on the first visionday, Industrial Visionday, receiving a prize of 2.500 kr for their project Hand Tracking Using Active Shape Models (get the poster: PowerPoint or PDF). Congratulations!
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In addition, Lars Arne Conrad-Hansen and Erik Dam from the Image Analysis group each gave a talk.
The Image Analysis group presents a number of papers at The 8th European Conference on Computer Vision in Prague this weeks. The authors are Mads Nielsen, Ole Fogh Olsen, Martin Lillholm, Kim Stenstrup Petersen, Arjan Kuijper, Marleen de Bruijne, and Marco Loog from the Image Analysis group and Philip Bille from the Theory department. Philip's work is a result of a collaboration between the groups in an EU project.
The Image Analysis group has four papers at this weeks SIAM Conference on Imaging Science (IS04) in Salt Lake City. The papers are by Ole Fogh Olsen, Arjan Kuijper, and Mads Nielsen.
| Speaker: | Lewis Griffin, King's College London |
| Title: | Optimality of the Basic Colours |
| Place: | IT University of Copenhagen, room 2.03 |
| Time: | Friday April 16., 16:00 |
| Host: | Martin Lillholm, IT University of Copenhagen |
Abstract:
The basic colour terms of a language are the smallest set with which a speaker can name any colour. Based on a study of 20 languages it has been claimed that the "basic colour terms of any given language are always drawn" from a set of eleven: black, grey, white, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink & brown. Although this claim to cultural universality has been contested through criticism of methodology and identification of possible counter examples, it has recently been confirmed by analysis of data from the World Colour Survey.
I have tested the hypothesis that the basic colour categories (BCCs) are uniquely optimally effective for describing the colours of everyday things. The results support the hypothesis which is consistent with the view that the BCCs are universal because they are optimal.
Afterwards we'll probably continue discussions over a beer in the Scroll-bar and if people are up to it go for a bite to eat later.
All papers submitted by the Image Analysis group were accepted for ICPR2004 - the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition. This means that Martin Lillholm, Marleen de Bruijne, Erik Dam, Arjan Kuijper, Ole Fogh Olsen, Kim Steenstrup Pedersen, Mads Nielsen, and Marco Loog will present 8 papers at the conference. In total 950 of 1950 submitted papers were accepted. The conference will take place in Cambridge, UK, 23rd - 26th August 2004.
This week four articles by members of the Image Analysis group were presented at this year's SPIE International Symposium on Medical Imaging in San Diego. Nanna Glerup og Jakob Raundahl gave oral presentations, while Lars A.-C. Hansen og Marco Loog had posters. They are all Ph.D. students in the Image Analysis group. Co-authors Mads Nielsen and Ole Fogh Olsen also participated in the conference. More information will soon appear.
Jenny Folkesson from Centre for Mathematics at Lund Institute of Technology gave a talk today based on her just finished master thesis, Modelling Images by a Sum of Parametric Models. Two dimensional gel electrophoresis is the leading technology for separating different proteins in biological samples. In the analysis of 2D gel electrophoresis images, some of the most vital information are the locations and the volumes of the protein spots. In this talk, a method of modelling gel image surfaces that accurately quantifies the proteins is presented.
Bram van Ginneken from the University of Utrecht gave a talk about research on segmentation and computer-aided diagnosis at the Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Professor Mads Nielsen from the ITU Image Analysis research group has been appointed member of the editorial board for the leading International Journal of Computer Vision.
Thousand of Danes suffer from osteo-arthritis, and every year thousands of new cases of the disease are discovered. Researchers from the IT University and the private research institute CCBR (Center for Clinical and Basic Research) have collaborated in evolving new technologies to improve the medical treatment.
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Professor Mads Nielsen from the Image Analysis group at ITU has been elected for the board of MICCAI. MICCAI is short for Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention and is an internationally leading research society in medical image analysis that arranges a yearly conference, which is leading within the research field.
Udbredte kvindesygdomme som brystcancer og knogleskørhed kan opdages tidligere, hvis radiologer bliver assisteret ved hjælp af digital billedanalyse. Det er ideen bag et stort dansk forskningsprojekt, der skal udvikle nye computerværktøjer til en mere præcis diagnose af røntgenfoto.
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