Hall of Visitors : 2001

Jan Flusser Afiliation : Department of Image Processing, Institute of Information Theory and Automation Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Address: UTIA AV CR, 182 08 PRAGUE 8, Czech Republic Phone: +420-2-6605 2357, +420-2-6605 2586 Fax: +420-2-688 0730 E-mail: flusser@utia.cas.cz Research area : Digital Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Remote Sensing Period of visit : December 2001

Jan Flusser was born in Prague, Czech Republic, on April 30, 1962. He received the M.Sc. degree in mathematical engineering from the Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic in 1985 and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1990. Since 1985 he has been with the Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague. Since 1995 he has been holding the position of a head of Department of Image Processing. Since 1991 he has been also affiliated with the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, where he has given the courses on Digital Image Processing. His current research interests include digital image processing, pattern recognition and remote sensing. He has authored and coauthored more than 80 scientific publications in these areas.

Paul Billault Afiliation : Ecole Polytechnique Address: 5, av de la Convention 94110 ARCUEIL FRANCE Phone: 0033 1 45 47 31 46 Fax: E-mail: paul.billault@polytechnique.org Research area : Computer graphics applied to texture synthesis Period of visit : April / July 2001

Paul Billault studied Applied Mathematics at the Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France. He worked on different themes related to signal processing as speach processing and image compression. His current training period at IMPA will end his scolarity at the Ecole Polytechnique.