Mike's place in the Pattern Recognition Group in Delft


You have some idea about my interests, but how did this fit in with the rest of the group? The situation described here reflects the group while I was a member, spanning the period from October 1992 to August 2003. As I am no longer there, this page now has the status of a historical rather than a current document ;)

In essence, our group work(ed/s) on severals aspects of Multi-dimensional and Multi-variate Data Analysis. These aspects cover a whole range of activities starting with image acquisition, through early vision and feature extraction to pattern recognition. Briefly after I left, the pattern recognition research moved to a different group. This necessitated a change of name from Pattern Recognition Group to Quantitative Imaging Group.

I worked closely together with Lucas van Vliet and Piet Verbeek. The blurb on Lucas' home page states that his interests include "segmentation and analysis of objects, textures and structures in multi-dimensional digitized images from a variety of imaging modalities". We carry on with one of the traditional strengths of our group: measurement in images. Lucas, Piet, my compadres (the postdocs and PhD students under Lucas' and Piet's supervision) and our students are the people I worked with in my day-to-day research:

Compadres

Peter Bakker
Judith Dijk
Richard van den Doel
Frank Faas
Geert van Kempen
Cris Luengo
Tuan Pham
Bernd Rieger
Geert de Vries
Kees van Wijk
Students (supervised by Lucas van Vliet and/or Piet Verbeek, and myself)

Rutger Jan van Asselt, "Line and Edge Characterisation using Mallat Wavelets", 1997.
Joost van de Weijer, "Curvature and Anisotropy Estimators for Line Bundle Images", 1998
Robert Peeters, "Markov Random Fields in Image Filtering & Texture Analysis", 1999.
Rikje Okker, "Contour Continuation using Space Variant Mathematical Morphology", 2003.

Although mostly supervised by Bernd Rieger, I have also been involved in the supervision of:
Frederik J. Timmermans, "Estimation of Shape Descriptors based on Principal Curvatures", 2001.

The remaining research areas covered by our group were (rough descriptions):

Pattern Recognition [since moved] Bob Duin and co-workers
Robotics and hardware/software for Image Processing Pieter Jonker and co-workers
Medical Image Analysis and Visualisation Albert Vossepoel and co-workers
Quantitative Microscopy Ted Young, Yuval Garini and co-workers