EMA magzine (issue 10) is now available online . A picture of Rizwan Khan (at page 27), a CIMET Alumin  is selected as one of the finalists. CIMET students and alumni can vote the photo to help win.

The Master Thesis presentations for cohort 4 (2011-2013) will take place from 17th to 20th of June, on the four sites of the CIMET consortium. List of Master thesis is available  here . We wish the students very best for their thesis work.

On the 4th and 5th of March 2013, Alain Trémeau (France) and Jon Y. Hardeberg (Norway) attended the 4th Computational Color Imaging Workshop ( CCIW2013 ), at Chiba, Japan.

Four papers were presented by CIMET partners:

• On the Uniform sampling of CIELAB color space and the number of discernible colors , Philippe Colantoni, Jean-Baptiste Thomas and Alain Trémeau.
• CFA based simultaneous multispectral imaging and illuminant estimation , Raju Shrestha and Jon Yngve Hardeberg. 
• Retinal spectral image analysis methods using spectral reflectance pattern recognition , G.M. Atiqur Rahaman, Jussi Parkkinen, Markku Hauta-Kasari and Ole Norberg.
• 2D ½ scene reconstruction of indoor scenes from single RGB-D Images ’, Natalia Neverova, Damien Muselet and Alain Trémeau.

Ali IDE-EKTESSABI, Professor at University of Kyoto, Japan, was invited at University Jean Monnet to participate to the Master CIMET. He contributed to the course "Color in Art and Design" taken by UJM students during spring semester and shared his expertise and enthusiasm with students and staff.

Three postdoctoral researcher and one PhD positions in the fields of spectral color research, photonics and biology are open at the SIB Labs, University of Eastern Finland (UEF), under new Tekes (Technology and Innovation) project funded by the Finnish Funding Agency and supported by the European Union Structural Fund. The application deadline is 8th April .

For more details, see  PDF file .

Group of UEF international MSc degree students and Spectral Color Research Group members visited two companies: ZenRobotics (Helsinki) and Nokia (Espoo) on March 14, 2013.

ZenRobotics plans robotic waste sorting systems, using advanced machine learning technology. At Nokia , the students learned about mobile phone camera systems. Thank you for our hosts in both companies!

See our group picture in the Impit Finland Facebook page !

The University of Eastern Finland and Olympus Corporation, a Japanese designer and manufacturer of imaging equipment, have joined forces and are now working on a collaborative research project. The project develops spectral colour technology which makes also the use of the ultraviolet and infrared spectrums invisible to the human eye. The research project studies the application of spectral imaging and spectral image analysis, e.g., environmental monitoring and demanding industrial quality control processes.

Full press release is in address: http://cs.joensuu.fi/~mhk/Press_release_Olympus_spectral_colour_19032013.pdf

ImOptics is a new programme offered by University of Granada in Spain and University Jean Monnet in France and labelled by the Mediterranean Office for Youth . This new bilateral curriculum path of the Master Erasmus Mundus CIMET focuses on the complementary of Image and Optics. It aims to develop interdisciplinary and internationally trained experts in optics, photonics and computational imaging. The objective is to educate students in advanced methodologies with two possible outcomes, either a research orientation for further studies at doctoral level, or a practical and applicative finality in research and engineering.

More information is available in PDF here .

At the Norwegian National Conference on Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (NOBIM 2013, http://www.nobim.no) last week, it was impossible to miss CIMET. Out of a total attendance of around 30 researchers in Image Processing from various Norwegian companies, universities, and research institutions, as a total of 7 current and previous CIMET students attended! 

The Norwegian Colour and Visual Computing Laboratory at Gjøvik University College invites applications for the 6 PhD positions available in the SHP project HyPerCept – Colour and Quality in Higher Dimensions. The core concepts of the project are colour and quality, both complex perceptual attributes that are currently not fully understood. We will investigate in dimensions beyond what is common, concerning both the attributes themselves and their domain of application.

For more details, see  here .

The Colour and Visual Computing Symposium 2013 (CVCS 2013) will take place in Gjøvik, Norway, on 5-6 September 2013. The symposium will contain a rich program of tutorials, keynotes, invited, and regular talks on a wide variety of colour imaging and visual computing topics given by young researchers and well-known international experts in the field.

We encourage all to submit a paper with your latest research results to the symposium before March 15, 2013. For more information, see http://www.colourlab.no/cvcs/ .

Markku Hauta Kasari at UEF is pleased to announce that the best MSc-thesis done at the University of Eastern Finland will be presented to the best MSc-thesis competition in Computer Science in Finland. The best thesis in Computer Science selected is from CIMET alumni Md. Abul Hasnat: "SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF NEUROSURGERY RGB VIDEO".

The CIMET project contest final presentations were done by videoconferencing between consortium partners on Thursday, December 13, 2012. The topic related to color appearance in microscopes was originated from Olympus Corporation and four CIMET groups worked in the topic. Olympus representatives were participating the presentations in Joensuu and gave prizes to the two best teams, digital cameras and binoculars.

CIMET “family members” contribute more and more to the Computer Vision World, 7 alumni students had a paper accepted at ECCV 2012 (one of the main conference in the field of Computer Vision), held on 7-13 October in Firenze, Italy.

Several members of the CIMET staff and CIMET students will attend the twentieth Color and Imaging Conference (see www.imaging.org/ist/conferences/cic ) on 12-16 Nov 2012, in Los Angeles, California.

The fifth edition of the Master Erasmus Mundus CIMET arrived in Saint-Etienne on the 10th of September and participated to the induction period organised by the coordinating team at the Faculty of Science and the International Office of University Jean Monnet.

For the 8th edition since 2008 UJM and UEF contributed to the organization of the Intensive Program in Computer Vision (IPCV), organized this year at Koblenz, Germany, see http://ipcv.uni-koblenz.de/ .

The CIMET master will be soon enrolling its fifth cohort of exceptional students for the course edition 2012-2014. Since its creation, the master benefits from the label of excellence “Erasmus Mundus”. Following the first accreditation in 2008, the master CIMET recently obtained again the label of excellence for one year as an Erasmus Mundus Master Course.

In April and May, Amit RAY, Professor & Emeritus Fellow at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing Jabalpur, India and Andreja SAMCOVIC, Associate Professor at University of Belgrade, Serbia participated to the CIMET programme as invited scholar at University Jean Monnet.

We are pleased to announce that the Spanish version of  “The Color Curiosity Shop” “ La tienda de las curiosidades sobre el color ”is now published in hardcopy in Spain through a collaboration of Prof. Manuel Melgosa of University of Granada. This book is cosigned by Mark Fairchild (RIT, USA) and Manuel Melgosa (UGR, Granada, Spain).

The project COSCH - Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage coordinated by the Institut für Raumbezogene Informations - und Messtechnik, Fachhochschule Mainz, Germany, has been selected in May 2012 to become a COST Action, http://www.cost.eu/ .

University Jean Monnet (Alain Trémeau, UJM - France), University of Eastern Finland (Markku Hauta-Kasari, UEF – Finland) and Gjovik University College (Jon Y. Hardeberg, GUC – Norway) are members of the COSCH consortium.

There was a significant representation from the CIMET community in the recently held 6th European Conference on Color in Graphics, Imaging and Vision (CGIV) in Amsterdam, Netherlands on 6-9 May 2012. Five papers have been presented by the CIMET alumni and students in the conference:

• Computational color constancy using a stereo camera,  Raju Shrestha and Jon Yngve Hardeberg; Gjøvik University College (Norway)
• Metamer mismatch volumes, Alexander Logvinenko, Glasgow Caledonian University(UK); Christoph Godau , KU Leuven (Belgium) and Brian Funt, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
• Labial teeth and gingiva color image segmentation for gingival health-state assessment, Timo Eckhard , Eva M. Valero and Juan L. Nieves; University of Granada(Spain)
• Utilization of spectral information in clustering based color image segmentation, Zhengzhe Wu , Ville Heikkinen, Jussi Parkkinen and Markku Hauta-Kasari; University of Eastern Finland (Finland) andMonash University, Sunway Campus(Malaysia)
• Spectral reflectance estimation from transverse field detectors responses,  Miguel A.Martínez , Eva M. Valero, Giacomo Langfelder and Javier Hernández-Andrés; University of Granada (Spain) and Politecnico di Milano (Italy)

On 9th of March, at the University Granada and the Science Park, neuroscientists Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik gave two lectures on the brain, mind, optical illusions and magic.

Three CIMET alumni Raju Shrestha, Ali Amirshahi and Viktor  Slavkovikj presented their papers in the IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference 2012 held on 22-26 January in San Francisco, CA, USA.

The CIMET consortium meeting was held in Gjøvik, Norway on 12-14th of  January. Co-ordinators, administrators and other representatives (Quality Board) from all the four partner universities:   University Jean Monnet (France) ,  University of Eastern Finland ,  University of Granada (Spain)  and Gjøvik University College (Norway)   attended the meeting. 

On the 8th and 9th of December 2011, as part of the CIMET program at University Jean Monnet, the following seminars will be held within the Image and Processing and Analysis course:  

« Color stereovision and demosaiking» by Ludovic MACAIRE, Professor at University Lille,   http://lagis-vi.univ-lille1.fr/~lm/

 « Mapping using fused sensors in autonomous robots» by Dietrich PAULUS, Professor at University of Koblenz, Germany, http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~paulus/

« Contribution to color image processing, tracking, spatial matching and temporal fusion» by Michèle GOUIFFES, Associate professor at University Paris XI – Orsay 

On the 12th and 13th of November, Alain Trémeau represented the Master Mundus CIMET at the European Higher Education Fair in Jakarta, Indonesia, on the stand of the Erasmus Mundus project EACOVIROE (Action 3).  See http://www.ehefindonesia.com/  He also participated to several University visits, along with the French Campus France delegation in Indonesia. Alain Trémeau visited the Institute Tecknologi Bandung (ITB) and Universitas Indonesia (UI) to establish bilateral agreements. See  www.indonesia.campusfrance.org/  

Following a call for proposals from the Higher Education Ministry in Norway and the Foreign and European affairs Ministry in France, a new Master course is opening in September 2012.

This Franco-Norwegian Master course will focus on "3D Multimedia Technology" between the Faculty of Science and Technology of University Jean Monnet of Saint-Etienne and Gjøvik University College. The Master is based on the Master "Optics, Image, Vision" delivered by University Jean Monnet in Saint-Etienne and the Master in "Media Technology" of Gjøvik University College. 

The fourth edition of the Master Erasmus Mundus CIMET arrived in Saint-Etienne on the 5th of September and participated to the induction period organised by the coordinating team at the Faculty of Science and the international office of the University Jean Monnet.

Many congratulations to the students of the second CIMET cohort 2009-2011, who graduated on the 13th of September 2011 in Saint-Etienne. 

The CIMET Consortium welcomes Markku Hauta-Kasari as the new Academic coordinator of CIMET at University of Eastern Finland.

Ateendra Kumar Singh, CIMET master student representative cohort II, attended the EMA General Assembly in Budapest on 24th and 25th June 2011. His presentation can be obtained  here .

Professor Jussi Parkkinen, CIMET coordinator at University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu campus has recently been appointed for three years, at Australian Monash University, Sunway Campus in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

In his new position Professor Parkkinen will continue research in color science, pattern recognition, and image analysis. He will remain involved in CIMET through building connections and partnerships between CIMET consortium and Monash University Malaysian Campus. Interesting PhD opportunities will also be created within his research team.

Alain Trémeau (UJM) as coordinator of the CIMET Program was invited by the French Erasmus Mundus National Structure (see www.europe-education-formation.fr ) as the best practice EMMC project representative for the training seminar organized within the Erasmus Mundus Active Participation (EMAP, see  http://emap-project.webnode.cz/ ) project in Latvia (Riga / 17-20 February 2011).

If you are admitted to CIMET but not a holder of the Erasmus Mundus scholarship, please use the search engine from Campus France to find a grant depending on your country of origin. See document attached for instructions.

Raju Shrestha, former CIMET student, now doctoral student at Gjovik University College was also invited to give a talk on his work at a workshop in Standford University ( http://scien.stanford.edu/pages/conferences/3D%20Imaging/speakers.php ).

Four CIMET students represented at Electronic Imaging Conference 2011, San Francisco, USA

• Mekides Abebe; Jérémie Gerhardt and Jon Yngve Hardeberg. Kubelka-Munk Theory for Efficient Spectral Printer Modeling . Color Imaging XVI: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications, San Francisco, California, USA, SPIE Proceedings, Volume 7866, Pages 786614, SPIE (January, 2011).
• Raju Shrestha; Jon Yngve Hardeberg and Alamin Mansouri. One-Shot Multispectral Color Imaging with a Stereo Camera . Digital Photography VII, San Francisco, California, USA, SPIE Proceedings, Volume 7876, Pages 787609 (January, 2011).
• Raju Shrestha; Jon Yngve Hardeberg and Rahat Khan. Spatial Arrangement of Color Filter Array for Multispectral Image Acquisition . Sensors, Cameras, and Systems for Industrial, Scientific, and Consumer Applications XII, San Francisco, California, USA, SPIE Proceedings, Volume 7875, Pages 787502 (January, 2011).
• ABM Tariqul Islam and Ivar Farup. Spatio-Temporal Colour Correction of Strongly Degraded Movies . Color Imaging XVI: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications, San Francisco, California, USA , SPIE Proceedings, Volume 7866,  Pages 78660Z (January 2011).

Apply to the CIMET master program today. The 4th round of admission is now open. You can read more about the application procedure  and the admission requirements .

If you are thinking about applying take a look at the 10 good reasons  to join the program, or read the testimonies of current and prior students. 

Apply today ! 

Two papers are presented during the conference and one academic from Université Jean Monnet is participating. The 25th International Conference of Image and Vision Computing takes place in New Zealand in November. 

The third edition 2010-2012 of the Master Erasmus Mundus CIMET arrived in Saint-Etienne early September where they spent two weeks dedicated to their induction and welcome. Our 24 new talented students come from 17 different countries and they have had the opportunity to share precious time together before embarking on their studies.

18 students of the 1st cohort have graduated on the 16th of September 2010. 4 students have been congratulated for their mention “Excellent” and 10 for their mention “Very Good”. 10 of them attended physically this Graduation Ceremony whilst others sent their message from various countries.

Raju Shrestha of cohort 1 (student in 2nd year of master CIMET) has presented a paper on “Multispectral Image Capture Using Two RGB Cameras” at the European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2010 held on 23-27 August.

Jon Yngve Hardeberg and other member of Gjøvik University College also attended the conference.

Fernando Basura, Karaoglu Sezer, Saha Sajib Kumar of cohort 2 (students in 1st year of master CIMET) and Alain Tremeau from Jean Monnet University in Saint-Etienne will present at DICTA2010 a paper on “A Novel Algorithm for Text Detection and Localization in Natural Scene Images.”

Christoph Godau of cohort 1 (student in 2nd year of master CIMET) and Brian Funt from Simon Fraser University, Canada, will present at CIC 2010 a paper on “XYZ to ADL: Calculating Logvinenko’s Object Color Space Coordinates”.

Jon Y Hardeberg and other members of Gjøvik university college staff will also present several papers at CIC 2010.

We are very happy to announce that one CIMET student of cohort 2008-2010 will receive a 3-years PhD scholarship from October 2011 at the Ecole des Ponts ParisTech.

We are very happy to announce that four CIMET students of cohort 2008-2010 will receive a 3-years PhD scholarship from October 2011, funded by : the French Ministry of Education and Research, the Région Rhône-Alpes (Cluster Isle, Project LIMA) or by Technicolor.

The CREATE conference on “colour in art, science, design, conservation, research, printmaking, digital technologies, textiles” was held at Gjøvik University College from the 7th of June till the 11th of June. More than 100 participated in this final conference of the CREATE series of conferences and training events. All participants presented themselves and their work, either as an interactive poster or as an oral presentation.

Several members of the CIMET staff and students attended EUVIP2010, the second European Workshop on Visual Information Processing. This workshop was held July 5-7th in Paris, France.

Alain Trémeau from Saint-Etienne presented as Invited Speaker a paper on “Color tuned salient detection for image quality assessment”.

Many members of the CIMET staff and students attended the conference CGIV2010, the fifth European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging, and Vision. This conference was held June 9-13th in Joensuu, Finland at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF).

The conference was organized by General Chair Jussi Parkkinen and Timo Jääskeläinen and staff of the UEF Joensuu Color Group, Theo Gevers, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands and Alain Trémeau, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France, served as Program Chairs.

Press here to view the CIMET presentation video.