Ron Kimmel ( he, רון קימל, b. 1963) is a professor of

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and

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(by courtesy) at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. He holds a D.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (1995) from the Technion, and was a post-doc at

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and Berkeley Labs, and a visiting professor at

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University. He has worked in various areas of image and shape analysis in computer vision, image processing, and computer graphics. Kimmel's interest in recent years has been non-rigid shape processing and analysis, medical imaging, computational biometry, deep learning, numerical optimization of problems with a geometric flavor, and applications of metric and differential geometry. Kimmel is an author of two books, an editor of one, and an author of numerous articles. He is the founder of the Geometric Image Processing La

and a founder and advisor of several successful image processing and analysis companies. Kimmel's contributions include the development of fast marching methods for triangulated manifolds (together with

James Sethian James Albert Sethian is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and the head of the Mathematics Grouat the United States Department of Energy, United States Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laborator ...

), the geodesic active contours algorithm for image segmentation, a geometric framework for image filtering (named ''Beltrami flow'' after the Italian mathematician Eugenio Beltrami), and the Generalized Multidimensional Scaling (together with his students the Bronstein brothers) with which he was able to compute the Gromov-Hausdorff distance between surfaces. He is one of the founders of the field of deep learning based computational oncology/pathology together with his student Gil Shamai. In 2003, he appeared in an interview to WNBC on the use of geometric approaches in

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. In 2011 his cofounded company - InVision was acquired by

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. For ten years he played a leading role in the research and development of

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technologies, as a part time Intel senior academic research fellow. In 2022 he cofounded Lumix.A

where he serves as a chief scientific officer.

Work

Medical imaging Medical imaging is the technique and process of imaging the interior of a body for clinical analysis and medical intervention, as well as visual representation of the function of some organs or tissues (physiology). Medical imaging seeks to rev ...

computer graphics Computer graphics deals with generating images with the aid of computers. Today, computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. A great de ...

computer vision Computer vision is an interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate tasks that the hum ...

deep learning Deep learning (also known as deep structured learning) is part of a broader family of machine learning methods based on artificial neural networks with representation learning. Learning can be supervised, semi-supervised or unsupervised. De ...

, and

Image processing An image is a visual representation of something. It can be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or somehow otherwise feed into the visual system to convey information. An image can be an artifact, such as a photograph or other two-dimensiona ...

Awards

SIAM Fellow The SIAM Fellowship is an award and fellowship that recognizes outstanding members of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The goal of the program is to: *honor SIAM members who are recognized by their peers as distinguished ...

for contributions to shape reconstruction, image processing, and geometric analysis, 2019 * SIAG Imaging Science Best Paper Prize for SIAM J. Imaging Science'2013. Scale invariant geometry for non-rigid shapes, 2016 *Helmholtz Prize (ICCV Test-of-Time Award) for his 1995 paper on Geodesic Active Contours, 2013 *

IEEE Fellow As of 2019, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has 5,082 members designated Fellow, each of whom is associated with one of the 41 societies under the IEEE. The Fellow grade of membership is the highest level of membershi ...

for his contributions to image processing and non-rigid shape analysis, 2009 * Counter Terrorism Award, 2003 * Henry Taub Prize, 2001 * Hershel Rich innovation award, 2001, 2003 * Alon Fellowship, 1998–2001

Books

* "Numerical Geometry of Images" published in 2003 by Springer * "Numerical Geometry of Non-Rigid Shapes" (with Alex and Michael Bronstein) published by Springer in 2009.

External links

Ron Kimmel's page at the Technion

Kimmel in a CNN news report
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kimmel, Ron Living people Israeli computer scientists Computer vision researchers Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni Fellow Members of the IEEE Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 1963 births