IPI: Image Processing and Interpretation Research Group

Saartje De Neve (thesis student at dept. TELIN, IR07) has received the BARCO/FWO award for master thesisses on the 9th of december 2009 with her thesis "Acquisition and display of images with a high dynamic range". The award ceremony took place in the Conference Theater of Barco in Kuurne, Belgium.

Tijana Ruzic (Dept. TELIN, IR07) has received the "best poster award" on the 27th of november 2009 during the ProRISC workshop in Veldhoven, The Netherlands with her work "Efficient inference engine for Ising Markov Random Field Model" (authors : T.Ruzic, A.Pizurica, W.Philips).

At the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2008, Jan Aelterman received a Certificate of Merit at the Education Exhibit for his poster, awarded by a jury of experts for interesting new developments in the field. (Ref. Aelterman et al "A 3D Denoising Algorithm for MRI Corrupted by Correlated Noise", RSNA 2008).

Ivana Despotovic has received the "Best flash presentation Award" at the ProRISC-workshop in Veldhoven on 28 November 2008, where about 82 posters were presented. Each poster was introduced by a 1-minute "flash"-presentation and the best one was awarded. A good flash presentation is not easy because it needs to motivate people to visit the corresponding poster, but also to describe the contents and importance of the work, all in one minute. (Ref: I. Despotovic et. al. "Using Phase Information in Ultrasound RF-Signals for Tissue Characterization, " in ProRISC 2008)

Dr. Ewout Vansteenkiste, postdoctoral researcher, received the scientific FWO-BARCO Prize for his PhD entitled "Quantitative Analysis of Ultrasound Images of the Preterm Brain".

The PhD of our researcher Ewout Vansteenkiste is mentioned in the Belgian press: "Gentse student verbetert hersenscan voor geboorte (Gentenaar - 25/4/2007)" (Ghent University Student enhances brainscans of premature infants).

Our researcher Stefaan Lippens was elected as second laureate for the presentation prize at the 7th PhD Symposium organized at the Faculty of Engineering (FirW) of Ghent University on 29 November 2006. He presented a poster titled "Halftoning with Grid Diffusion".

Marleen Morbee has received the "Best flash presentation Award" at the PRORISC-workshop in Veldhoven on 24 November 2006. In the workshop about 66 posters were presented. Each poster was introduced by a 1-minute presentation, called a "flash"-presentation. One award was given to the best presentation. Preparing a good flash presentation is not easy. According to the jury, Marleen was selected for the award because she was not only able to sell her poster (i.e. motivate people to visit it), but she also was able to explain what the work was about and why it is important.