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Prof. Fernand Meyer, MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University, France
- Title: A course on mathematical morphology
- Date: January 4, 2015 Time: 9:00-10:15 and 10:30-11:45 Hrs Venue: Platinum Jubilee Auditorium
- Presenting the elementary bricks: erosion and dilations, as minima and maxima of translated sets.
- Introducing the adjunction between operators, which couple all erosions and dilations.
- Present the openings and closings derived from the adjunction.
- Extend to algebraic openings and closings.
- Present the floodings and razings as connected openings and closings preserving the contours.
- Set up the basics of the theory of morphology filtering, as combinations of openings and closings.
- Present the levelings, commutative product of floodings and razings.
- Introduce the important watershed transform, for segmenting images.
- Combine the watershed with increasing floodings in order to produce size driven hierarchical segmentations.
- Prof. Dong Xu, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Title: SVM based approaches for visual domain adaptation
- Date: January 4, 2015 Time: 11:45-13:00 Hrs and 14:00-15:15 Hrs Venue: Platinum Jubilee Auditorium
- Prof. Amit Konar, Department of Electronics and Tele-Communication Engineering,
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, INDIA
- Title: Feature Selection and Classification of Brain Signals for Rehabilitative Applications
- Date: January 4, 2015 Time: 15:25-16:40Hrs and 17:00-18:15 Hrs Venue: Platinum Jubilee Auditorium
Short Biography: Fernand Meyer got an engineer degree from the Mines-ParisTech in 1975. He works since 1975 at the Centre de Morphologie Mathematique (CMM) of Mines-ParisTech (member of PSL Research University). His first research area was ''Early and Automatic Detection of Cervical Cancer on Cytological Smears'', subject of his PhD thesis, obtained in 1979. He participated actively to the development of mathematical morphology: reconstruction openings, top-hat transform, the morphological segmentation paradigm based on the watershed transform and markers, the theory of digital skeleton, the introduction of hierarchical queues for high speed watershed computations, morphological interpolations, the theory of levelings, hierarchical segmentation. His current subject of interest is the extension of mathematical morphology to node and/or edge weighted graphs.
Short Biography: Dr. Dong Xu is currently an associate professor in the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research focuses on new theories, algorithms and systems for intelligent processing and understanding of visual data such as images and videos. One of his co-authored works on domain adaptation for video event recognition won the Best Student Paper Award in CVPR 2010. He is on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, and Machine Vision and Applications (Springer).
Short Biography: Prof. Amit Konar is currently a Professor in the department of Electronics and Tele-Communication Engineering, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, and Joint Coordinator, Center for Cognitive Science, Jadavpur University. He is also the founding coordinator of a regular M.Tech. program on Intelligent Automation and Robotics, offered by Jadavpur University.
Dr. Konar has been teaching and carrying out research work at this university for the past 23 years. Jadavpur University is one of the top three universities in India. The faculty of Engineering and Technology, with more than 100 externally funded research projects, earned recognition as a "Center for Excellence" from the Government of India, and the university got the “Five Star” rating. The doctoral, master’s, and bachelor’s programs offered by the university are acknowledged as one of the very best in the country.