- Ron Kimmel
Ron Kimmel ( _he. רון קימל) is a professor of
computer science at theTechnion , Israel, specializing in the fields of geometric computational methods and algorithms inimage processing andcomputer vision . He holds a D.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (1995) from theTechnion and is a winner of the Hershel Rich Technion innovation award and theHenry Taub Prize.Kimmel's main contributions to the field include the development of
fast marching methods for triangulated manifolds (together withJames Sethian ), the geodesicactive contours algorithm for image segmentation and a geometric framework for image filtering (named "Beltrami flow" after the Italian mathematicianEugenio Beltrami ).In 2003, he appeared in an interview to WNBC on the use of geometric approaches in three-dimensional face recognition.
Kimmel is the author of the books "Numerical geometry of images" (published in 2003 by Springer) and
"Numerical geometry of non-rigid shapes" (withAlex and Michael Bronstein , to be published by Springer in 2008).ee also
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Computer vision
*Image processing
*Technion External links
* [http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~ron Ron Kimmel's page at the Technion]
* [http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/03/10/israel.twins.reut/ Kimmel in a CNN news report]
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