Ron Kimmel
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Ron Kimmel is a professor of Computer Science
at
the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.
He holds a D.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (1995) from the Technion,
and spent a post-doctoral position at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Labs, and a visiting
professorship at Stanford University.
He has worked in various areas of image and shape analysis in computer vision, image
processing, and computer graphics.
Kimmel's interest in recent years has been non-rigid shape processing and analysis, medical imaging, computational biometry, numerical optimization of problems with a geometric flavor,
and applications of metric geometry and differential geometry.
Kimmel is an author of two books, an editor of one, and an author of numerous articles.
He is the founder of the Geometric Image Processing Lab http://gip.cs.technion.ac.il/,
and a founder and advisor of several successful image processing and analysis companies.
Kimmel's contributions include the development of fast marching methods for
triangulated manifolds (together with James Sethian
), the geodesic active contour
s algorithm for image segmentation, a geometric framework for image filtering
(named Beltrami flow after the Italian mathematician Eugenio Beltrami
), and the Generalized Multidimensional Scaling
(together with his students the Bronstein brothers
) with
which he was able to compute the Gromov-Hausdorff distance
between surfaces.
In 2003, he appeared in an interview to WNBC on the use of geometric approaches in
three-dimensional face recognition.
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
at
the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.
He holds a D.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (1995) from the Technion,
and spent a post-doctoral position at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Labs, and a visiting
professorship at Stanford University.
He has worked in various areas of image and shape analysis in computer vision, image
processing, and computer graphics.
Kimmel's interest in recent years has been non-rigid shape processing and analysis, medical imaging, computational biometry, numerical optimization of problems with a geometric flavor,
and applications of metric geometry and differential geometry.
Kimmel is an author of two books, an editor of one, and an author of numerous articles.
He is the founder of the Geometric Image Processing Lab http://gip.cs.technion.ac.il/,
and a founder and advisor of several successful image processing and analysis companies.
Kimmel's contributions include the development of fast marching methods for
triangulated manifolds (together with James Sethian
James Sethian
James Albert Sethian is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the head of the Mathematics Group at the United States Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory....
), the geodesic active contour
Active contour
Active contour model, also called snakes, is a framework for delineating an object outline from a possibly noisy 2D image.This framework attempts to minimize an energy associated to the current contour as a sum of an internal and external energy:...
s algorithm for image segmentation, a geometric framework for image filtering
(named Beltrami flow after the Italian mathematician Eugenio Beltrami
Eugenio Beltrami
Eugenio Beltrami was an Italian mathematician notable for his work concerning differential geometry and mathematical physics...
), and the Generalized Multidimensional Scaling
(together with his students the Bronstein brothers
Alex and Michael Bronstein
Alex and Michael Bronstein are the identical twin co-authors of the book "Numerical geometry of non-rigid shapes" and co-founders of Novafora Inc. Both hold the Ph.D...
) with
which he was able to compute the Gromov-Hausdorff distance
between surfaces.
In 2003, he appeared in an interview to WNBC on the use of geometric approaches in
three-dimensional face recognition.
Awards
- IEEE FellowIEEE FellowAn IEEE member is elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow for "unusual distinction in the profession and shall be conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest"...
for his contributions to image processing and non-rigid shape analysis, 2009 - Counter Terrorism Award, 2003
- Henry Taub Prize, 2001
- Hershel Rich innovation award, 2001, 2003
- Alon Fellowship, 1998–2001
Books
- "Numerical Geometry of Images" published in 2003 by Springer
- "Numerical Geometry of Non-Rigid Shapes" (with Alex and Michael BronsteinAlex and Michael BronsteinAlex and Michael Bronstein are the identical twin co-authors of the book "Numerical geometry of non-rigid shapes" and co-founders of Novafora Inc. Both hold the Ph.D...
) published by Springer in 2009.