Workshop for Women in Shape Analysis

女性身材分析研讨会

• 批准号: 1619759
• 负责人: Erin Chambers
• 金额: $ 0.9万
• 依托单位: Saint Louis University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-15 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1619759&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Women; Shape; Analysis

This grant supports travel for US women to the Workshop for Women in Shape Analysis (WiShT), to be held at the Nesin Mathematics Village in Istanbul, Turkey, in the week June 5-12, 2016. The workshop is designed to strengthen the shape modeling community by bringing together women researchers at various stages in their careers (from graduate student to senior researcher) and from across the world, to foster research collaboration and mentorship. Because shape modeling is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from mathematics, computer science, and biotechnology, collaborations are especially crucial. Furthermore, since no single country has many women working in shape modeling, international collaborations are essential to forming robust networks of women researchers. Hosting the workshop in Turkey reflects a conscious effort to make the workshop more accessible for women from the Middle East and Africa. Participants will spend one week working together in small groups to solve one of a selection of open questions in shape modeling. Instead of the more typical workshop structure where participants watch presentations of established results, WiShT participants will begin generating new results in collaboration with other participants. Following the workshop, the research network will be maintained and strengthened by publishing a proceedings volume, establishing a website and listserv, and organizing follow-up conferences and reunions for participants. Mentoring and professional development will happen both formally and informally. For more information about the workshop see http://nesinkoyleri.org/eng/events/2016-wis2/index.phpShape analysis is a critical component in many applications areas, including image recognition, medical imaging, biomedical engineering, graphics, and computer animation. The workshop will tackle three very different challenging problems in shape modeling and analysis in groups led by experienced researchers, and the broad range of participants will allow an interdisciplinary team of scholars to make substantial progress in each area. Group 1 will explore the many possible definitions of shape complexity and will study the relationships between them in the hope of deriving an overarching mathematical theory of shape complexity and an understanding of when each notion of complexity is most appropriate. The second group will focus on combinatorial optimization for shape-based segmentation models, both discrete and continuous. Each model presents challenges: continuous models may not converge to optimal solutions or may be much slower, while in the discrete setting, integrating shape information or targeting structures with a particular predefined prior is quite challenging. Group 2 will combine these approaches by exploring the mapping of variational formulations to the discrete domain and tackle the challenges associated with optimizing the resultant discrete models. Group 3 will focus on convolution skeletons in both two and three-dimensions. The goal is to develop a method to transform an input shape and associated convolution skeleton into a new skeleton that is robust, compact, and reproducible that gives a smooth parameterization of the original shape. Results from each group will be published in an AWM-Springer volume, as well as disseminated via conference and journal publications.

这项赠款支持我们的女性前往形状分析的妇女讲习班（WISHT），将于2016年6月5日至12日在土耳其伊斯坦布尔的Nesin数学村举行。该研讨会旨在通过在研究生和高级研究人员的研究人员和跨越研究员的研究中召集各个阶段的女性研究人员来加强形状建模社区。由于形状建模本质上是跨学科的，这是从数学，计算机科学和生物技术学中汲取的，因此协作尤为重要。此外，由于没有一个国家有许多女性从事形状建模的工作，因此国际合作对于建立强大的女性研究人员网络至关重要。在土耳其举办的研讨会反映了一项有意识的努力，以使中东和非洲女性更容易进入研讨会。 参与者将花费一个星期的小组共同努力，以解决形状建模的各种开放问题之一。 Windt参与者将不再是更典型的研讨会结构，而参与者会观看既定结果的演示，而是开始与其他参与者合作产生新的结果。在研讨会之后，将通过发布程序量，建立网站和列表服务以及组织参与者的后续会议和团聚来维护和加强研究网络。指导和专业发展将正式和非正式地进行。有关研讨会的更多信息，请参见http://nesinkoyleri.org/eng/events/2016-wis2/index.phpshape Analysissition在许多应用领域中，包括图像识别，医学成像，生物医学工程，图形，图形和计算机动画。该研讨会将在经验丰富的研究人员领导的组中解决三个截然不同的挑战性问题，并且广泛的参与者将允许跨学科的学者团队在每个领域取得重大进展。第1组将探讨形状复杂性的许多可能的定义，并将研究它们之间的关系，以期得出形状复杂性的总体数学理论以及对每个复杂性何时最合适的理解。第二组将专注于基于形状的分割模型的组合优化，无论是离散和连续的。 每个模型都提出挑战：连续模型可能不会收敛到最佳解决方案，或者可能要慢得多，而在离散设置中，将形状信息或特定预定义的先验集成形状信息或定位结构非常具有挑战性。第2组将通过探索与离散域的变异配方的映射并应对与最终离散模型相关的挑战来结合这些方法。第3组将重点介绍两维和三维中的卷积骨骼。目的是开发一种方法，将输入形状和相关的卷积骨架转换为一个新的骨架，该骨骼具有稳健，紧凑且可重复性，从而使原始形状具有平滑的参数化。每个小组的结果将在AWM-Springer卷中发布，并通过会议和期刊出版物传播。