MSPAS '97

"MULTIDIMENSIONAL SIGNAL PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS: METHODS, ALGORITHMS, TECHNOLOGIES, APPLICATIONS"

(April 29 - May 26, 1997, Bucuresti, Romania)

The School consisted of several intensive courses of post-graduate level held by internationally renowned specialists and young researchers. The lectures were given in French, except the courses of the non-francophone professors, that were taught in English. The following Courses and Lectures were given:

• "Stochastic modelling and image analysis. From theory to applications" (16h + 8h applications), Prof. Françoise Preteux, Institut National des Télécommunications Evry, Département Signal et Image.
• "The discrete Fourier transform and its generalisation with applications to coding" (6h), Prof. James Massey, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
• "Active vision" (4h), Prof. Svetha Venkatesh, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin.
• "Elements of information processing in biological vision and some speculations on brain functioning" (6h), Dr. Erhardt Barth, Universität München, Institut für Medizinische Psychologie.
• "Optimal filtering of images: non-recursive approaches" (12h + 12h applications), Prof. Philippe Bolon, Université de Savoie, Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs d'Annecy.
• "Optimal Filtering" (18h + 6h applications), Prof. Daniel Baudois, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble.
• "Bidimensional modelling of non-stationary, stationary increasing processes" (4h), Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu, Ecole Normale Superieure Cachan
• "Noise suppression using wavelet packages" (6h), Prof. Jean-Cristophe Pesquet, Ecole Superieure d'Electricite, Gif sur Yvette.
• "Nonlinear filtering with adaptive neighbourhoods" (8h), Prof. Rangaraj M. Rangayyan, The University of Calgary, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• "The Hough and Radon transforms and geometric probabilities" (10h), Prof. Jean-Marie Becker CPE - IPL, Institut Polytechnique de Lyon.
• "Discrete Geometrie of Curves and surfaces" (9h), Prof. Jean-Marie Morvan, Institut Girard Desargues, Université Claude-Bernard Lyon
• "Segmentation methods and industrial applications of image processing" (12h), Prof. Michel Jourlin, CPE - IPL, Institut Polytechnique de Lyon.
• "Visual perception in the context of biological modelling" (6h), Prof. Jeanny Hérault, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble.