Laurent Cohen

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Laureat 2009 du Grand Prix EADS de l'Academie des Sciences
IEEE Fellow 2010 for contributions to computer vision technology for medical imaging

Marie-Curie PhD Fellowship

Postdoc : plusieurs propositions. Me contacter
Postdoc : Open positions. Contact me.

Directeur de Recherche au CNRS
CEREMADE, UMR CNRS 7534,
Universite Paris IX Dauphine
Place du Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny
75775 Paris cedex 16, France
Tel. (33-1) 44 05 46 78 Fax (33-1) 44 05 45 99
Cohen@ceremade.dauphine .fr

Research area and fields of interests

Talk given at College de France An overview of my work on geodesics and Image Analysis. January 2009
An overview of my work on geodesics December 2008
An overview of my work on minimal paths Decembre 2004.
Article sur les chemins minimaux dans la revue SPM du CNRS, pages 15--16, Decembre 2003.
Some videos of Virtual Endoscopy
Some (old) examples in Images
Working on different problems involving
Variational Methods and Partial Differential Equations for
Image Analysis and Computer Vision, like
Deformable Models, Snakes, Minimal Paths, curve and surface Reconstruction,
Image Segmentation and Restoration.

Background

• (Photo and short biography) :

• 1983-1986: PhD on Partial Differential Equations in Paris 6 with H. Brezis

• 1985-1987: Schlumberger Palo Alto and Montrouge Research

• 1988-1989: INRIA Rocquencourt

• Since 1990:
  Research Scholar at CEREMADE; Directeur de Recherche CNRS (full time research position).
  Teaching at ENS Cachan for DEA MVA and Dauphine for DEA "EDP et Applications"
  Responsable a Dauphine accueil doctorants et Stages pour le DEA MVA:Mathematiques, Vision par Ordinateur et Apprentissage.
  Propositions theses et Stages
  Proposition de These CIFRE
  Resume du Cours de DEA
  Also for sometime with INRIA, mainly with the medical image understanding group , EPIDAURE, in Sophia Antipolis.
  Expert Consultant in Image Analysis for various companies.

Publications

• Main Publications available on the web (1988-2006) according to chronology

• Main Publications available on the web (1988-2006) according to subjects

• 10 Main Publications 1988-1995 included in Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches (1988-1995)

• list of main publications 1983-2005 ( latex bibitem file) or PDF file

• An overview of my Research between 1983 and 1995 is available in my Habilitation a diriger des recherches. It includes pointers to my main publications of this period.

• Habilitation cover

PhD Students

• June 1992. Isaac Cohen, Deformable Models in 2D and 3D, Application to Medical Images. List of Publications with Isaac Cohen. Isaac Cohen is now Research Assistant Professor, Computer Science at USC.

• December 1995. Eric Bardinet, Deformable Superquadrics and Motion Analysis of the Heart, Active Regions. List of publications with Eric Bardinet and Nicholas Ayache and abstracts that correspond to the PhD Thesis work. Eric Bardinet, is with the EPIDAURE project.

• June 1996. Bertrand Leroy, Face Recognition using deformable models. List of Publications with Bertrand Leroy.

• May 1998. Zakaria BenSbeh, Geodesic Dilatation in Mathematical Morphology and Application to Image Segmentation in Ophtalmology.

• November 1998. Martin Lefebure, Image Registration, Optical Flow and local Rigidity. Creator of Realeyes3D.

• December 2001. Thomas Deschamps, Fast Marching and Minimal Paths in 3D images and applications to Virtual Endoscopy and Segmentation. List of publications that correspond to the PhD Thesis work of Thomas Deschamps in the Medical Imaging Systems Group (MEDISYS) of Philips Research Laboratories Paris/LEP. Currently at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

• April 2002. Samuel Vinson, Detection of Buildings in Aerial Images using Variational Methods, at EADS, Matra Systemes et Information. Currently at Sagem.

• March 17th, 2005. Roberto Ardon. Segmentation of surfaces in 3D images using minimal paths.

• November 24th, 2005. Pablo Arbelaez. A metric approach to Image Segmentation

• December 15th, 2005. Valerie Moreau.

• December 18th, 2006. Stephane Bonneau. Minimal paths and applications in biologic images

• Work in Progress. Fethalla Benmansour.

• Work in Progress. Oudom Somphone.

• Work in Progress. Adrien Auclair.

Editorial Activities, Programme Committee

Journals

• Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision

• Medical Image Analysis

• Machine Vision and Applications

Conferences

• EMMCVPR 2007, International workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2007, Lotus Hill Institute, China.

• First International Conference on Scale Space Methods and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (SSVM)}, Ischia, Italy, May 30 - June 2, 2007.

• Mathematics and Image Analysis 2006, Paris, September 18-21, 2006

• EMMCVPR 2005, International workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, November 9-11, 2005, St. Augustine, Florida, USA.

• 3nd IEEE Workshop on Variational, Geometric and Level Set Methods in Computer Vision, In Conjunction with the 10th IEEE International Conference in Computer Vision, October 15, 2005, Beijing, China

• 5th International Conference on Scale-Space and PDE methods in Computer Vision, April 7-9, 2005, Hofgeismar, Germany.

• WACV 2005, Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, January 5-7, 2005, Breckenridge Colorado.

• Mathematics and Image Analysis 2004, Paris, September 6-9 2004

• 8th European Conference on Computer Vision, May 11-14, 2004, Prague, Czech Republic

• 4th International Conference on Scale-Space theories in Computer Vision, 10-12 June 2003, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK.

• EMMCVPR 2003, International workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, July 2003, Lisbon, Portugal.

• FIMH'03, Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart 2003, June 5-6, 2003 Lyon, France.

• Mathematics and Image Analysis 2002, Paris, September 10-12 2002

• IAPR's International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Quebec, August 11-15 2002

• RFIA'02, 8 - 10 Janvier 2002, Centre des Congres d'Angers

• First International Workshop on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart FIMH'2001 November 15 - 16th Helsinki, Finland

• Seventh European Conference on Computer Vision, 28-31 May 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark

• Mathematics and Image Analysis 2000, Paris, 25 - 27 September 2000

• ECCV'00, June 00

• RFIA'00, February 00

• CIMPA School in China : Partial Differential Equations (PDE) and Computer Vision, May 1999.

• MRF'99, April 99

• CVPR'98, IEEE Computer Society Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 98

• WBIA'98, IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Image Analysis, June 98

• RFIA'98, January 98

• Colloque Mathematiques et reconnaissance de formes, November 97

• IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition CVPR '96, June 96

• IEEE/SIAM Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, June 96

Working Groups GT

• GT Vision et Perception du GDR Mathematiques des systemes perceptifs et cognitifs

• GT Formes, deformations et espaces de formes du GDR Mathematiques des systemes perceptifs et cognitifs

• GT1 du PRC CHM Comparaison entre approches statistiques et approches variationnelles. 

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  - Revised: March 29th, 2000 by Laurent Cohen