Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Research Visitors

Visits of International Scientists

• Csaba Benedek (MTA SZTAKI, Hungary, one week in January 2014).

• Qiyin Fang (McMaster University, Canada, one week in May 2014).

• Joseph Francos (Ben-Gurion University, Israel, one week in July 2014).

• Zoltan Kato (Szeged University, Hungary, one month, from mid-July till mid-August 2014).

• Vladimir Krylov (Genoa University, Italy, one week in September 2014).

• Zhao Liu (University of Manchester, one week in Dec 2014).

• Gabriele Moser (Genoa University, Italy, one week in July 2014).

• Samir Sahli (McMaster University, Canada, one week in September 2014).

• Thomai Tsiftsi (Durham University, UK, one week in March 2014).

Internships

• Emmanuel Maggiori (from May until November 2014)

  • Subject: Optimizing partition trees for multi-class segmentation with shape prior.

  • Institution: Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires and Inria.

• Shu-Chi Yeh (from May until August 2014)

  • Subject: Hyperspectral skin image processing.

  • Institution: McMaster University, Canada.

Visits to International Teams

• Josiane Zerubia was invited in June to visit several laboratories in Israel: Electrical Eng. and Remote Sensing Departements at BGU in Beer Sheva, Computer Science Department at HUJI in Jerusalem, Computer Science Department at Haifa University, Multimedia Department at IDC University in Herzlyia, as well as 2 industrial research centers at Herzlyia (General Motors and Superdimension/Covidian). She also visited 2 start-up companies working in image processing: ORCAM in Jerusalem and GIVIEW in Ramat Gan. Finally she attended the Israel Computer Graphics day 2014 at Weizmann Institute in Rehovot.

• Josiane Zerubia visited in August the Computer Vision and Geometric Modeling lab at the University of Montreal, the Biophotonics lab at the Dept. of Engineering Physics of Mc Master University, as well as the Juravinski cancer research center in Hamilton, and two laboratories working in medical imaging and biological sciences at Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto.

• Josiane Zerubia was invited by University of Szeged and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in December to visit the research group on visual computation at the Informatics Department, as well as the BIOMAG research group of the Synthetic and Systems Biology Unit, located both at Szeged University. She also visited 3 laboratories related to remote sensing, image processing and computer graphics in MTA SZTAKI in Budapest.