Franz Ollendorf Minerva Center for Information Processing and Automation

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Established 1985)

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Fields of Research

Vision and Image Sciences

• Electron Physics and Devices
• Electromagnetism
• Relativistic Electromagnetism
• Quantum Electronics
• Medical Electronics
• Vision

Keywords

Image Representation, image understanding, computer vision and parallel processing, image processing, multimedia, neural networks, computer graphics.

Research activities and aims

• Development of theory and algorithms for image understanding and vision, based on concepts derived from vision and communication theory
• Development of parallelizable algorithms and architectures suitable for vision
• Development of new tools in the area of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), suitable for vision and pattern recognition
• Development of tools in vision applicable to multimedia systems
• Investigation of techniques for classifying full body human posture motion
• Development of algorithms in computer graphics, scientific visualization, animation and computation-algeometry