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

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and Electrical and Computer Engineering (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 The fast marching methodJ.A. Sethian. A Fast Marching Level Set Method for Monotonically Advancing Fronts, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 93, 4, pp.1591--1595, 1996/ref> is a numerical method created by James Sethian for solving boundary value problems ...

methods for triangulated manifolds (together with James Sethian), the geodesic

active contour Active contour model, also called snakes, is a framework in computer vision introduced by Michael Kass, Andrew Witkin, and Demetri Terzopoulos for delineating an object outline from a possibly noisy 2D image. The snakes model is popular in compute ...

s 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 three-dimensional face recognition. 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,

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, deep learning, 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-dimension ...

Awards

* SIAM Fellow 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 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 Alex Bronstein (b. May 28, 1980) is an Israeli computer scientist and serial technologist. He is a professor of Computer Science and Machine Learning at Technion, where he holds the Dan Broida Academic Chair and the Schmidt Chair in Artificial Inte ...

) 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