[BIC-announce] Dr. Nikos Paragios: "Visual Perception through Hyper Graphs"; Wednesday, March 23, 11:30-12:30; Trottier 0070

[Zografos 'Aki' CARAMANOS]

TITLE: Visual Perception through Hyper Graphs
DATE: March 23, 11:30-12:30
LOCATION: Trottier 0070

SPEAKER: Nikos Paragios, Professor, CentraleSupelec, Inria, University of
Paris-Saclay  (http://cvn.ecp.fr/personnel/nikos/)

ABSTRACT
Computational vision, visual computing and biomedical image analysis have
made tremendous progress of the past decade. This is mostly due the
development of efficient learning and inference algorithms which allow
better and richer modeling of visual perception tasks. Hyper-Graph
representations are among the most prominent tools to address such
perception through the casting of perception as a graph optimization
problem. In this talk, we briefly introduce the interest of such
representations, discuss their strength and limitations, provide
appropriate strategies for their inference learning and present their
application to address a variety of problems of visual computing.

BIOGRAPHY
Nikos Paragios is professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science and
director of the Center for Visual Computing of CentraleSupelec. Prior to
that he was professor/research scientist (2004-2005, 2011-2013)at the Ecole
Nationale de Ponts et Chaussees, affiliated with Siemens Corporate Research
(Princeton, NJ, 1999-2004) as a project manager, senior research scientist
and research scientist. In 2002 he was an adjunct professor at Rutgers
University and in 2004 at New York University. N. Paragios was a visiting
professor at Yale (2007) and at University of Houston (2009). Professor
Paragios is an IEEE Fellow, has co-edited four books, published more than
two hundred papers in the most prestigious journals and conferences of
medical imaging and computer vision (DBLP server), and holds twenty one US
patents. His work has approx 15,750 citations according to Google Scholar
and his H-number (03/2016) is 60. He is the Editor in Chief of the Computer
Vision and Image Understanding Journal and serves as a member of the
editorial board for the Medical Image Analysis Journal (MedIA) and the SIAM
Journal in Imaging Sciences (SIIMS). He as served as an associate/area
editor/member of the editorial board for the IEEE Transactions on Pattern
Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), the Computer Vision and Image
Understanding Journal (CVIU), the International Journal of Computer Vision
(IJCV) and the Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision (JMIV) while he
was one of the program chairs of the 11th European Conference in Computer
Vision (ECCV'10, Heraklion, Crete) and serves regularly at the conference
boards of the most prestigious events of his fields (ICCV, CVPR, ECCV,
MICCAI). Professor Paragios is member of the scientific council of SAFRAN
conglomerate.
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