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ron kimmel 2008 alfred bruckstein , nahum kiryati haifa , israel ieee 2013 -rrb- fellow -lrb- 2009 -rrb- helmholtz-test of time-award -lrb- 220px israel israel engineering , computer science , mathematics technion , ucb stanford geodesic active contours image segmentation ronkimmel.jpg ron kimmel
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ron kimmel

ron kimmel -lrb- , b. 1963 -rrb- is a professor of computer science at the technion israel institute of technology .
he holds a d.sc .
degree in electrical engineering -lrb- 1995 -rrb- from the technion , and he was a post-doc at uc berkeley and berkeley labs , and a visiting professor 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 -lsb- http://gip.cs.technion.ac.il/] , 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 -lrb- together with james sethian -rrb- , the geodesic active contours algorithm for image segmentation , a geometric framework for image filtering -lrb- named `` beltrami flow '' after the italian mathematician eugenio beltrami -rrb- , and the generalized multidimensional scaling -lrb- together with his students the bronstein brothers -rrb- 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 .
