An international conference on

PDE-Based Image Processing and Related Inverse Problems

NB, New Sep. 27, 2006: The proceedings volume, published by Springer, is now available, see here (Springer page), or here (Amazon page)

NB, New Nov.1, 2005: Foils and presentations from a number of the conference talks may be found here.

CMA, Oslo, Norway,
August 8-12, 2005.

A workshop organized and sponsored by

• Centre of Mathematics for Applications (CMA), University of Oslo, and
• Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research (CIPR), University of Bergen.
• Simula Research Laboratory
• The Research Council of Norway
• ENABLE Project

Introduction:

The purpose of the conference is to bring international researchers to present various aspects of new developments in using numerical techniques for partial differential equations to analyse and process digital images. The conference will focus on, but will not be limited to the following topics for image analysis and processing:

• Noise analysis and removal
• Image inpainting
• Image segmentation
• 3D image analysis including shading, motion, shape and edge detection.
• Analysis and processing of MR images and brain mapping
• Diffusion-tensor image analysis
• Simulation and image techniques for ECG and other medical techniques
• Image processing and data mining for Internet communication and information technology.

Inverse problems for partial differential equations have large areas of applications. One widely studied application is for oil reservoir simulations. Although image analysis and PDE inverse problems seem to be unrelated at a first glance, there are many techniques used in one of these two areas that are useful for the other. For example, many of the regularization techniques and segmentation ideas used for image processing have found interesting applications in inverse problems within oil reservoir modelling. We shall use this conference to highlight some of the recent efforts in merging some of the techniques for these two research areas.

Poster

Please download a conference poster here.

Invited speakers:

Confirmed plenary speakers:

• Raymond Chan (Chinese University of Hong Kong, http://www.math.cuhk.edu.hk/~rchan/
• Tony F. Chan (University of California at Los Angeles, http://www.math.ucla.edu/~chan/
• Stanley Osher (University of California at Los Angeles, http://www.math.ucla.edu/~sjo/
• Martin Rumpf, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn,
  http://numod.ins.uni-bonn.de/people/rumpf/rumpf.shtml
• Otmar Scherzer, (University of Innsbruck, http://infmath.uibk.ac.at/staff/otmar/
• Joachim Weickert (Saarland University, http://www.mia.uni-saarland.de/weickert/

• Qianshun Chang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Ke Chen, University of Liverpool
• Oddvar Christiansen, University of Bergen
• Oliver Dorn, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• Frederic Gibou, UC Santa Barbara
• Sung Ha Kang, University of Kentucky
• Stacey Levine, Duquesne University
• Wolfgang Ring, University of Graz
• Richard Tsai, Princeton University
• Hao-Min Zhou, Georgia Institute of Technology

Registration:

Registration is now closed.

Conference format:

Lectures at the conference are by invitation only. To be eligible for an invitation, please submit title and abstract for a possible presentation to the organizers. A coffee break is scheduled after every two speakers so that all the participants will have enough time to communicate and discuss with each other.

Proceedings

All participants for the conference are invited to contribute to the proceedings for this conference which will be published by Springer.

All contributions should be orignal work not published any where else. All contributions will be screened using a stadard referee process imposed by the Springer proceeding books. High standards similar to internal journals on image processing will be applied to decide the acceptance of the contributions. We will not impose a precise page limit. However, it is prefered that all papers shall not exceed 20 pages in letter size paper using font size 10pt. All contributions must be within the scope of the conference, i.e. it must be dealing with PDE-based image processing and using these related techniques for inverse problems.

The deadline for submitting a contribution is set to be:
NB September 12 2005. NB

Please submit your contributions electronically attached in one single .pdf or .ps file to: h.k.galdal@cma.uio.no

Once a contribution is accepted for the proceedings, the authors will be asked to use the style files in latex provided by Springer for the format for the final submission to the processings. Details about this will be sent to the authors once the paper has been accepted.

Program:

(NEW July 27, last modified Aug 1) Here is the scheduled program. NB. May be due to changes later on.

Book of Abstracts

(NEW July 27, last modified Aug 3). Here is a collection of abstracts for the conference (will be incuded in the conference folder

List of registered participants

(NEW July 27). Here is a complete list of participants.

Venue and travel description

The conference will be held in Georg Sverdrups hus (the University Library) at the University of Oslo, Blindern. Find building no 27 on this map. More detailed travelling description here.

Organizing committee:

• Xue-Cheng Tai, Chair (University of Bergen and CMA).
• Helge Galdal, CMA
• Knut-Andreas Lie (SINTEF/Simula)
• Arvid Lundervold (University of Bergen)
• Marius Lysaker (Simula)
• Hans Munthe-Kaas (University of Bergen)
• Ragnar Winther (CMA)
• Sigurd Aanonsen (CIPR)