The document discusses image processing research in Flanders. It notes that the Flemish government allocated 4.2 million Euros to support image processing research, which employs around 250 researchers. It then provides an overview of key areas of image processing research, including acquisition, transformation, analysis, and visualization of image data. Application areas discussed include biomedical imaging, remote sensing, and robot navigation.

1. Image Processing
Peter Schelkens

2. Image Processing in Flanders
 Business Communications Company Inc. has estimated
the worldwide market for ‘Digital Imaging’ to be
approximately 260 Billion € in 2005.
 Within specific niche markets Flemish players were able to
evolve to world leaders.
 The Flemish companies involved in the preparation of this
extension represented 25.000 employees and a turn-over
of 6 Billion €.
 The Flemish Government decided to add to the IBBT
portfolio a recurrent budget of 4.2 Million € tot support
image processing research in Flanders
 Approx. 250 IBBT researchers are active in this domain
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3. Image Processing
Acquisition Management
Surveillance Industrial
& Security Applications
Medical Visual
Imaging Communication
& Interaction
Visualisation
Transformation Analysis
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4. Classification of Image Processing Techniques
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5. Acquisition
Video-based Media: multi-camera set-up
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6. Acquisition
Video-based Media: multi-camera set-up
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7. Acquisition
Video-based Media: multi-cam video processing
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8. Acquisition
Imaging systems
Milimeterwave imaging Computer Tomography
Nuclear Imaging
3D Time-of-flight cameras
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9. Transformations
Restoration
©Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
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10. Transformation
Registration
Ictal EEG-SPECT-MR
co-registration
Registration of cervical spine for
mobility assessment
Example: registration
of cardiac MRI for
quantitative analysis
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11. Analysis
Biomedical Image Processing and Analysis
Diffusion Tensor MRI
4D Liver segmentation
Functional MRI
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12. Analysis
Recognition and Classification
Classification of remote sensed images
Cancer Cell Classification
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13. Analysis
Pedestrian tracking in real traffic scenes
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14. Analysis
Robot navigation
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15. Visualisation
3D reconstruction from uncalibrated photographs
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16. IBBT Your Partner in Image Processing
Acquisition Management
Surveillance Industrial
& Security Applications
Medical Visual
Imaging Communication
& Interaction
Visualisation
Transformation Analysis
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