[compgeom-announce] Call for participation: Ecole Polytechnique LIX Colloquium 2008

[Frank NIELSEN <nielsen@lix.polytechnique.fr>]

Dear Colleagues,

The forthcoming LIX colloquium of Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, Paris,
France) is to be held this coming November 18th-20th 2008.

Registration is free of charge, available on first come first served basis.
http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/etvc08/registration.html

The list of distinguished speakers is as below:
(abstracts in PDF:
http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/etvc08/AbstractTalksETVC08.pdf )

Shun-Ichi AMARI (Mathematical Neuroscience Laboratory, Brain Science
Institute, RIKEN, Wako-Shi, Japan)
Information Geometry and Its Applications

Tetsuo ASANO (School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of
Science and Technology, JAIST, Japan)
Constant-Working-Space Algorithms for Image Processing

Francis BACH (INRIA-ENS/Mines)
Machine learning and kernel methods for computer vision

Frederic BARBARESCO (Thales Air Systems, France)
Applications of information geometry to radar signal processing

Michel BARLAUD (I3S CNRS, University of Nice-Sophia-Antipolis,
Polytech'Nice & Institut Universitaire de France, France)
Image Retrieval via Kullback Divergence of Patches of Wavelets
Coefficients in the k-NN Framework

Jean-Daniel BOISSONNAT (GEOMETRICA, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France)
Certified Mesh Generation

Pascal FUA (EPFL, CVLAB, Swiss)
Recovering Shape and Motion from Video Sequences

Markus GROSS (Department of Computer Science, Institute of Scientific
Computing, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, ETHZ,
Switzerland)
3D Video: A Fusion of Graphics and Vision

Xianfeng David GU (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
Discrete Curvature Flow for Surfaces and 3-Manifolds

Leonidas GUIBAS (Geometric Computation Group, Computer Science Department,
Stanford University, USA)
Detection of Symmetries and Repeated Patterns in 3D Point Cloud Data

Sylvain LAZARD (VEGAS, INRIA LORIA Nancy, France)
3D Visibility and Lines in Space

Stéphane MALLAT (Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées,
CMAP, France)
Sparse Geometric Super-Resolution

Hiroshi MATSUZOE (Department of Computer Science and Engineering Graduate
School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, NITECH, Japan)
Computational Geometry from the Viewpoint of Affine Differential Geometry

Dimitris METAXAS (Computational Biomedicine Imaging and Modeling Center,
CBMI, Rutgers University, USA)
Unifying Subspace and Distance Metric Learning with Bhattacharyya
Coefficient for Image Classification

Frank NIELSEN (LIX, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France & Sony Computer
Science Laboratories Inc., Tokyo, Japan)
Computational Geometry in Dually Flat Spaces: Theory, Applications and
Perspectives

Richard NOCK (CEREGMIA, University of Antilles-Guyane, France)
The Intrinsic Geometries of Learning
Nikos PARAGIOS (Ecole Centrale de Paris, ECP, Paris, France)
Procedural Modeling of Architectures: Towards Large Scale Visual
Reconstruction

Xavier PENNEC (ASCLEPIOS, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France)
Statistical Computing on Manifolds for Computational Anatomy

Ramesh RASKAR (MIT Media Lab, USA)
Computational Photography: Epsilon to Coded Imaging

Cordelia SCHMID (LEAR, INRIA Grenoble, France)
Large-Scale Object Recognition Systems

Gabriel TAUBIN (Division of Engineering, Brown University, USA)
Shape from Depth Discontinuities

Baba VEMURI (Department of Computer & Information Science and Engineering,
University of Florida, USA)
Information-Theoretic Algorithms for Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Suresh VENKATASUBRAMANIAN (School of Computing, University of Utah, USA)
Non-standard Geometries and Data Analysis

Martin VETTERLI (School of Computer and Communication Sciences & Dept.
Elect. Eng. and Computer Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland)
Sparse Sampling: Variations on a Theme by Shannon

Jun ZHANG (Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, USA)
Information Geometry: Duality, Convexity and Divergences

The detailed programme is available at:
http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/Labo/Frank.Nielsen/ETVC08/programme.html#programme

ETVC08: Emerging Trends and Challenges in Visual Computing.
http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/etvc08/

The colloquium is sponsored by CNRS, DIGITEO and GdR Math & Image.

Best regards, Frank Nielsen.





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