Ron Kimmel
| Ron Kimmel | |
|---|---|
 Ron Kimmel 2008 | |
| Born | Haifa, Israel |
| Nationality |
 Israel |
| Fields | Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics |
| Institutions |
Technion, UCB Stanford |
| Doctoral advisor | Alfred Bruckstein, Nahum Kiryati |
| Known for |
Geodesic Active Contours |
| Notable awards | IEEE Fellow (2009) |
Ron Kimmel (Hebrew: רון קימל, b. 1963) is a professor of Computer Science at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. He holds a D.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (1995) from the Technion, and spent a post-doctoral position at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Labs, and a visiting professorship at Stanford 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, numerical optimization of problems with a geometric flavor, and applications of metric geometry 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 Lab , 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), 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.
In 2003, he appeared in an interview to WNBC on the use of geometric approaches in three-dimensional face recognition.
Work
Awards
- 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) published by Springer in 2009.