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September 23rd, 2011
15 Days to Discover the Video Technologies

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The group “image processing” of the UCL, through Christophe De Vleeschouwer and Benoît Macq, actively participating in this fortnight of video technologies, organized as part of events “Charleroi 2011”. The general public will discover, through a series of presentations, the treatment of cancer, interactive cinema, video, video games or neurosurgery are all areas that rely on image processing. The researchers will present recent results in these areas rapidly changing technology. The occasion also to show the relationship between the medical and industrial Charleroi and academic research.Discover the program of the fifteen below:

  • September 22 to 17h: Christian Van Brussel (UCL) and Michel Benoit (TWIST Consultant) will discuss the technology 3-D image for the new interactive cinema.
  • September 26 to 17h: Prof. Christophe De Vleeschouwer (UCL) and Dr Jean-François Delaigle (ACIC SA) will hold a conference on “interpret video signals: application to the analysis of sport and in case of video surveillance.”
  • September 28 at 17h: Dr. Myriam Thys (GHdC) and the Ir Dr Jonathan Orban Xivry (UCL) will present a talk on “guiding surgery by imaging: the case of neuronavigation – how to navigate the brain without in damaging the features. ” 
  • October 5, from 14 to 16:30, will be an afternoon recreation for students and teachers of high school. Dr. Laurent Jacques (UCL) and Prof. Benoît Macq (UCL) illustrate that the image processing is a tremendous scope of mathematics. Researchers show how, for example, the derivative is used to detect the edges of objects, how the notion of probability is essential to compress the images or how to make full use of a digital microscope …