News
October 2008
Image and Vision Computing Conference
The "Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2008" conference is to be held in Lincoln University, Christchurch 26-28 November 2008. This is New Zealand's primary conference concerned with imaging, image processing and computer vision, and is held annually in different locations. The conference webpage is http://www.lvl.co.nz/ivcnz2008/.
August 2008
SPIE Conference on Image Reconstruction from Incomplete Data V
San Diego, California 10-14 August 2008
This conference deals with all aspects of methods and applications of image recovery problems.
The conference is now finished and proceedings can be found at the SPIE digital library.
CIG Ph.D. student wins Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship
Amanda Zhang, a PhD student (Thesis title: Studying atmospheric mountain waves using sailplane flight data) working with Professor Rick Millane, was recently awarded a prestigious national Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship. This scholarship will support her research into atmospheric mountain waves using data acquired by sailplanes, in tandem with modelling aircraft and atmospheric dynamics.
July 2008
CIG Professor involved in FRST funded project
CIG Professor Phil Bones is a key investigator in a FRST funded project led by Professor Phil Butler in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. This project aims to create a New Zealand industry supplying spectral x-ray detector systems to the international research and medical imaging markets. What will be known as the MARS (Medipix All Resolution System) imager will be manufactured and assembled by New Zealand industry for incorporation in the new generation of scanners manufactured by major global companies. The MARS imager will transform medical x-ray CT images from black and white to full colour with the potential to have a dramatic impact on medical diagnosis and on health care in New Zealand and the world.
April 2008
CIG Ph.D. student wins Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship
CIG Ph.D. student Victor Lo (thesis title: Iterative projection algorithms for image reconstruction) has won a prestigious Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship, the highest level scholarships offered by the New Zealand Government. The recipient, Victor Lo, said he was honoured to receive a Top Achievers Scholarship. “I have submitted a couple of papers to conferences in the US this year and, if the papers are accepted, the travelling money will mean that I can attend one of them.” Victor is working on the development of new techniques to determine molecular structure. He said if he was successful, the time and cost involved in biomolecular structure determination would be dramatically reduced.