[BIC-announce] Allen Tannenbaum's Colloquium

[Kaleem Siddiqi]

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> Dear Colleagues:
> Allen Tannenbaum will be giving our SOCS colloquium this week. He is a  
>  terrific speaker.
> I encourage you all to attend and to circulate this announcement to  
> those who you think
> might be interested.
>
> Best Regards,
> -Kaleem Siddiqi
>
> Kaleem Siddiqi										
> School of Computer Science & Centre For Intelligent Machines
> McGill University
> http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~siddiqi
>
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> Date and Time: Friday, April 1st, 15:30 pm to 16:30 pm
> Room:	McConnell Engineering, Rm 13
>
> Title: Methods for Segmentation and Registration of Medical Imagery
>
>
> We will describe some recent work on two key problems in medical
> imagery: segmentation and regsitration. We will also describe
> controlled active vision techniques for image guided surgery and  
> therapy.
>
> The underlying method is based on certain flows which give rise to
> (nonlinear) geometric equations which are invariant with respect to  a  
> given transformation
> group action. We will provide some relevant results from the theory of  
> curve and
> surface evolution, and show how these may be used for a number of areas
> in computer vision and image processing, such as image enhancement,  
> optical flow,
> registration image segmentation, shape theory, and invariant  
> scale-spaces. We will
> demonstrate these techniques with a wide variety of medical images  
> including MR,
> CT, and ultrasound.
>
> The talk is designed to be accessible to a general audience with an  
> interest in medical imaging.
>
>
> Biography
> Allen Tannenbaum was born in New York City. He attended Columbia  
> University where he received his B.A. in 1973,
> and then moved to Massachusetts to attend Harvard University where he  
> earned a Ph.D. in mathematics 1976.
>
> He has held faculty positions at the Weizmann Institute of Science,  
> Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Technion (Israel Institute of  
> Technology), and the University of Minnesota. He has also been a  
> visiting professor in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering at McGill.
>  In August 1999, he joined the ECE Department of the Georgia Institute  
> of Technology where he set up the Laboratory for Computational  
> Computer Vision.
>
> Dr. Tannenbaum has over 250 publications and has authored or  
> co-authored three research texts on systems and control. He has played  
> a leading role in developing new mathematical techniques for various  
> engineering problems in systems and control, vision, signal  
> processing, and cryptography.
>
> Dr. Tannenbaum has received a number of awards for his research, and  
> has given plenary talks at a number of conferences in engineering and  
> mathematics.
>
> 	

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<excerpt>Dear Colleagues:

Allen Tannenbaum will be giving our SOCS colloquium this week. He is a 
terrific speaker.

I encourage you all to attend and to circulate this announcement to
those who you think

might be interested.


Best Regards,

-Kaleem Siddiqi


<color><param>807E,0000,807E</param>Kaleem Siddiqi										

School of Computer Science & Centre For Intelligent Machines

McGill University

http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~siddiqi

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Date and Time: Friday, April 1st, 15:30 pm to 16:30 pm

Room:	McConnell Engineering, Rm 13


Title: Methods for Segmentation and Registration of Medical Imagery



We will describe some recent work on two key problems in medical

imagery: segmentation and regsitration. We will also describe

controlled active vision techniques for image guided surgery and
therapy.


The underlying method is based on certain flows which give rise to

(nonlinear) geometric equations which are invariant with respect to  a
given transformation 

group action. We will provide some relevant results from the theory of
curve and

surface evolution, and show how these may be used for a number of areas

in computer vision and image processing, such as image enhancement,
optical flow,

registration image segmentation, shape theory, and invariant
scale-spaces. We will

demonstrate these techniques with a wide variety of medical images
including MR, 

CT, and ultrasound.


The talk is designed to be accessible to a general audience with an
interest in medical imaging.



Biography

Allen <fontfamily><param>Arial</param>Tannenbaum was born in New York
City. He attended Columbia University where he received his B.A. in
1973, 

and then moved to Massachusetts to attend Harvard University where he
earned a Ph.D. in mathematics 1976.


He has held faculty positions at the Weizmann Institute of Science,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Technion (Israel Institute of
Technology), and the University of Minnesota. He has also been a
visiting professor in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering at McGill.

 In August 1999, he joined the ECE Department of the Georgia Institute
of Technology where he set up the Laboratory for Computational
Computer Vision.


Dr. Tannenbaum has over 250 publications and has authored or
co-authored three research texts on systems and control. He has played
a leading role in developing new mathematical techniques for various
engineering problems in systems and control, vision, signal
processing, and cryptography.


Dr. Tannenbaum has received a number of awards for his research, and
has given plenary talks at a number of conferences in engineering and
mathematics.

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