Ron Kimmel (; born 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

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methods for triangulated manifolds (together with

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), the geodesic active contours algorithm for image segmentation, a geometric framework for image filtering (named ''Beltrami flow'' after the Italian mathematician

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), 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 Three-dimensional face recognition (3D face recognition) is a modality of facial recognition methods in which the three-dimensional geometry of the human face is used. It has been shown that 3D face recognition methods can achieve significantly h ...

. In 2011,

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acquired his cofounded company InVision. For ten years he played a leading role in the research and development of Intel RealSense technologies, as a part time Intel senior academic research fellow. In 2022 he cofounded Lumana.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 revea ...

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

computer vision Computer vision tasks include methods for image sensor, acquiring, Image processing, processing, Image analysis, analyzing, and understanding digital images, and extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical ...

deep learning Deep learning is a subset of machine learning that focuses on utilizing multilayered neural networks to perform tasks such as classification, regression, and representation learning. The field takes inspiration from biological neuroscience a ...

, and

image processing An image or picture is a visual representation. An image can be two-dimensional, such as a drawing, painting, or photograph, or three-dimensional, such as a carving or sculpture. Images may be displayed through other media, including a pr ...

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 distinguishe ...

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 , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ...

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 Fellows of the IEEE Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 1963 births