Patrick Gerard Beirne

Patrick Cavanagh

Patrick Cavanagh graduated in Communications Engineering from McGill University in 1968. An interest in artificial intelligence led to a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Carnegie-Mellon in 1972. He taught at the Université de Montréal in Psychology until 1989, when he moved to Harvard as a Professor of Psychology. Along with Ken Nakayama, he founded the Vision Sciences Laboratory at Harvard i...

Patrick Lemaire

Patrick Lemaire grew up in Orsay, close to Paris. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and did his PhD at the EMBL (Heidelberg) and ENS (Paris) with Patrick Charnay (1985–1990); he then joined, as a post-doc, the laboratory of John Gurdon in Cambridge (1991–1994), where he identified a crucial Xenopus organizer gene, Siamois. He has been heading a CNRS research group in Marseille since 199...

Gerard Medioni and Ramakant Nevatia

Images are 2-dimensional projections of 3-dimensional scenes, therefore depth recovery is a crucial problem in image understanding, with applications in passive navigation, cartography, surveillance, and industrial robotics. Stereo analysis provides a more direct quantitative depth evaluation than techniques such as shape from shading, and its being passive makes it more applicable than active ...

Omslag Dissertatie definitief Gerard Jagers.indd

7 1. General Introduction 9 2. The birth of an idea 63 3. The future of evolution 77 4. A backbone for system science 99 5. Bringing the definition of life to closure 121 6. Getting the biggest part of the pie 149 7. Definitions behind the operator theory 161 8. Centripetal science 173 9. General discussion and conclusions 199

Patrick Graves