Aysin Ertuzun

Bogazici University, Turkey

Aysin Ertuzun


About the speaker

Aysin Ertuzun received the BS degree (with honors) from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, the MSc degree from McMaster University (first-class standing), Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and the PhD degree from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, all in electrical engineering, in 1981, in 1984 and in 1989, respectively. Since 1988, she is with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Bogazici University where she is currently a professor. Her current research interests are in the areas of Bayesian signal processing, independent component analysis, blind signal processing, wavelets, adaptive systems and texture analysis. She has authored and co-authored over 80 scientific papers in journals and conference proceedings. She supervised more than 30 graduate master and PhD students. She is a member of IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Societies, IAPR -International Association of Pattern Recognition, IEICE - The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers and TOTIAD - Turkish Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Society. She is appointed as the advisor to the rector in 2012. Prof. Ertuzun will talk about her recent work on development and application of advanced texture analysis methods suitable for addressing tasks imposed by image-analysis based automation in textile industry.


Carl-Fredrik Westin

Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA

Carl-Fredrik Westin


About the speaker

Carl-Fredrik Westin is the founding director of the Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging, and Associate Professor of Radiology, both at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Additionally, he has a joint appointment with the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA. The Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging is focused on the application of mathematical theory, analysis, modeling, and signal processing to medical imaging applications. He is also a part-time visiting professor at Department of Biomedical Engineering at Linköping University. Dr. Westin has (co)-authored over 250 publications in the fields of computer vision, medical image analysis and image guided surgery, of which over 120 are in peer-reviewed international journals. A main focus of his research during the past decade has been diffusion MRI, and his laboratory is internationally known for developing innovative and pioneering methods. During his career, Dr. Westin has mentored more than 50 undergraduate and graduate students and young researchers. He has served as a Guest Editor on several special issues on image analysis (IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, International Journal of Computer Vision and Signal Processing).


Marleen de Bruijne

University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Marleen de Bruijne


About the speaker

Marleen de Bruijne is associate professor of medical image analysis at Erasmus MC Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and at University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She received an MSc degree in physics (1997) and a PhD degree in medical imaging (2003) both from Utrecht University, The Netherlands. From 2003 to 2006 she was assistant professor and later associate professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Marleen has (co-)authored over 150 peer-reviewed full papers in international conferences and journals. She has been a member of the program committee of many international conferences in medical imaging and computer vision, associate editor for Image and Vision Computing and Medical Physics, and is a member of the editorial board of Medical Image Analysis and of Frontiers in ICT - Computer Image Analysis. Her research interests are model based and quantitative analysis of medical images with applications a.o. in pulmonary imaging, neuro imaging, and cardiovascular imaging.


Uwe Franke

Daimler Research and Development, Germany

Uwe Franke


About the speaker

Uwe Franke received his Diploma degree and his PhD degree both in electrical communications engineering from Aachen Technical University in 1983 and 1988. Since 1989 he is with Daimler Research&Development. He developed Daimler's lane departure warning system (Spurassistent) and has been working on stereo vision since 1996. Since 2000 he is head of Daimler's image understanding group. The algorithms developed by this group are the basis for Daimler's Stereo Camera based safety systems that are commercially available in mid- and upper class Mercedes Benz vehicles since 2013. He authored, or co-authored, more than 120 journal and conference scientific papers. He received a number of awards for his work; among others IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award 2014, Uni-DAS ADAS Award 2014, Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize 2012, Nominated for the "Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2011" (German Future Prize), the Federal President's prize for technical innovation, DAGM/GCPR Prizes 1988, 2010 and 2013 (German Association for Pattern Recognition), Best paper awards at the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposia IV 2010, IV 2012, and IV 2014 Prize awarded by the ITG (German IT Society) 1988. Dr. Franke's research interests include Image Understanding for Driver Assistance Systems, Stereo Vision, and 6D-Vision