Image ProcessingPeter Schelkens

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Image Processing in Flanders

Business Communications Company Inc. has estimatedthe worldwide market for ‘Digital Imaging’ to beapproximately 260 Billion € in 2005.

Within specific niche markets Flemish players were able toevolve to world leaders.

The Flemish companies involved in the preparation of thisextension represented 25.000 employees and a turn-overof 6 Billion €.

The Flemish Government decided to add to the IBBTportfolio a recurrent budget of 4.2 Million € tot supportimage processing research in Flanders

Approx. 250 IBBT researchers are active in this domain

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Image Processing

Acquisition

Transformation Analysis

Visualisation

Management

Surveillance & Security

IndustrialApplications

Visual Communication

& Interaction

Medical Imaging

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Classification of Image Processing Techniques

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AcquisitionVideo-based Media: multi-camera set-up

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AcquisitionVideo-based Media: multi-camera set-up

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AcquisitionVideo-based Media: multi-cam video processing

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AcquisitionImaging systems

Milimeterwave imaging

3D Time-of-flight camerasNuclear Imaging

Computer Tomography

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TransformationsRestoration

©Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry

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TransformationRegistration

Registration of cervical spine formobility assessment

Ictal EEG-SPECT-MRco-registration

Example: registrationof cardiac MRI for

quantitative analysis

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AnalysisBiomedical Image Processing and Analysis

Diffusion Tensor MRI

4D Liver segmentation

Functional MRI

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Cancer Cell Classification

AnalysisRecognition and Classification

Classification of remote sensed images

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AnalysisPedestrian tracking in real traffic scenes

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AnalysisRobot navigation

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Visualisation3D reconstruction from uncalibrated photographs

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IBBT Your Partner in Image Processing

Acquisition

Transformation Analysis

Visualisation

Management

Surveillance & Security

IndustrialApplications

Visual Communication

& Interaction

Medical Imaging