Faculty Directory
Guillermo R. Sapiro
Professor
Education
- D.Sc., EE, 1993, Technion, Haifa, Israel
- M.S., EE, 1991, Technion, Haifa, Israel
- B.S., CE, 1989, Technion, Haifa, Israel
Contact Information
- 5-159 EECS
- Telephone: (612) 625-1343
- E-mail: guille
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- Personal Web Site
Honors/Awards
- 2008 Vincentine Hermes-Luh Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 2007 Funding Editor-in-Chief, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) SIAM Journal on Imaging Science
- 2006 Plenary Speaker, Curves and Surfaces, Norway, June 2006.
- 2006 George Taylor Research Award, University of Minnesota
- 2004 Distinguished McKnight University Professor
- 2003-2005 Vice President/President of the SIAM Imaging Sciences Activity Group
- 2001 Best student paper award with graduate student M. Bertalimio, First IEEE Workshop on Variational and Level Set Methods in Computer Vision, Vancouver, July, 2001
- 1999 Plenary Speaker, Foundation of Computational Mathematics, Oxford, July 1999
- 1999 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award
- 1998 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
- 1997 Plenary Speaker, IEEE/EURASIP Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, Mackinac Island, Michigan, September, 1997
- 1993 Rothschild Fellowship for Post-Doctoral Studies
Synopsis
My areas of specialization include image processing, computer vision, robotics, human vision, differential geometry, partial differential equations, invariant theory, human motor control, user friendly image processing and computer vision, and applications of mathematics to engineering problems.
Selected Publications
- X. Bai and G. Sapiro, "Geodesic matting: A framework for fast interactive image and video segmentation and matting", International Journal Computer Vision, 2009.
- G. Haro, G. Randall, and G. Sapiro,"Translated Poisson mixture model for stratification learning", International Journal Computer Vision 80:3, pp. 358-374, December 2008.
- J. Liu, A. Bartesaghi, M. J. Borgnia, G. Sapiro, and S. Subramaniam, "Molecular architecture of native HIV-1 gp120 trimers", Nature 07159, July 30, 2008.
- J. Mairal, M. Elad, and G. Sapiro, "Learning multiscale sparse representations for image and video restoration", SIAM Multiscale Modeling and Simulation 7, pp. 214-241, 2008.
- F. Memoli and G. Sapiro, "A theoretical and computational framework for isometry invariant recognition of point cloud data", Foundations of Computational Mathematics 5:3, pp. 313-347, 2005.
- M. Bertalmio, G. Sapiro, V. Caselles, and C. Ballester, "Image inpainting", Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH), July 2000.