ICISP 2008 Invited speakers

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Joachim Weickert is Full Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Saarland University where he heads the Mathematical Image Analysis Group. He received a diploma and a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of Kaiserslautern (1991, 1996), and a habilitation degree in computer science from the University of Mannheim (2001). He worked as research assistant at the University of Kaiserslautern, as post-doctoral researcher at the universities of Utrecht and Copenhagen, and as assistant professor at the University of Mannheim. He performs research in image processing, computer vision and scientific computing, focussing on techniques based on partial differential equations and variational methods. He has developed models and efficient numerical algorithms for image restoration, enhancement, segmentation, compression, optic flow computation, stereo reconstruction, as well as signal processing methods for tensor fields.

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David Tschumperlé is a former student of ESSI, an engineer school in Sophia-Antipolis/France, specialized in computer sciences. Since 1999, he has been interested in applied mathematics for signal/image processing, and their numerous applications. He wrote his PhD thesis on Multivalued Image Regularization with PDE's, in the Odyssée Lab (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis) under the supervision of Rachid Deriche and defended it on december 2002. He proposed a local geometric study and formulation of the regularization PDE methods as well as proposed numerical schemes in order to implement them. During the year 2003, he did a one-year post-doctoral immersion into the wonderful world of DT-MRI imaging, using variational methods : estimation, regularization, visualization, etc. DT-MRI is very interesting since it allows to compute fiber networks in the white matter of the brain. From March to July 2004, he has been hired as a research engineer in the L3I lab, in the University of La Rochelle, working for the european project PRESTOSPACE. He has been interested in movie restoration and desinterlacing, using tensor geometry, motion estimation and inpainting methods. In October 2004, He has been finally hired as a permanent CNRS researcher in the Image group of the GREYC Lab, in Caen.

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Godfried T. Toussaint received the B.Sc. degree from the University of Tulsa, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A. and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada in 1968, 1970, and 1972, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. Since 1972 he has been teaching and doing research in the School of Computer Science at McGill University in the areas of information theory, pattern recognition, and computational geometry.
Presently, he is Associate Editor of Computational Geometry:Theory and Applications, and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications. He is also an Editor of the journals Forma, and Revista Investigacion Operacional, and serves on the Advisory Board of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. He is a current member of the New York Academy of Sciences. He has edited two books published by North Holland, Computational Geometry in 1985 and Computational Morphology in 1988. In 1978 he was the recipient of the Pattern Recognition Society's Best Paper of the Year Award. In 1996 he was awarded the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society's Service Award for his "outstanding contribution to research and education in Computational Geometry." In May 2001 he was awarded the David Thomson Award for excellence in graduate supervision and teaching at McGill University. In February 2005 he became a researcher in The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology in the Schulich School of Music at McGill University.

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Driss ABOUTAJDINE Received the Doctorat de 3rd Cycle and the Doctorat d'Etat-es-Sciences degrees in signal Processing from the Mohammed V-Agdal University, Rabat, Morocco, in 1980 and 1985, respectively. He joined Mohammed V-Agdal University, Rabat, Morocco, in 1978, first as an assistant professor, then as an associate professor in 1985, and since 1990, he is professor with the "Faculté des Sciences" heading the GSCM_LRIT lab. Actually he is the national coordinator of a National Information technology network of excellence. He was a visiting scholar with the Southeastern Massachusetts University (SMU) and the ISL Laboratory, Stanford University, during the summers of 1981 and 1990, Guest Scientist during the summers of 1986, 1995 and 1997 with ENST Paris, France, Polytechnic University of Catalunya (UPC) and Rouen University. From 1986 to 1988, he was on leave at the ENSERB, Bordeaux I University. Since October 1999 he is IEEE Senior Member. He has contributed to more than 120 articles to journals and conference proceedings. He organized the international symposium ISIVC2000 in Rabat and ISCCSP2006 in Marrakech, Morocco, co-organized ICISP'01 in Agadir Morocco ISIVC2004 in Brest France and ISIVC2006 in Tunisia. His research interests include statistical and adaptive signal and image processing, pattern recognition and their applications. He was elected member of the Hassan II Moroccan academy of science and technology.