Re: sabbatical project

[Søren Hauberg]

fre, 12 09 2008 kl. 16:31 -0400, skrev Thomas L. Scofield:
> When it comes to advice, I would appreciate help with choosing a
> package to work on.  I have done some work in imaging and am
> interested in doing more, and in that vein I have thought it would be
> interesting to work on packages of the following types: general image
> processing (contributions to the image package), a package for
> compressive sampling, a package for level set methods, and a wavelet
> package; I believe the latter three would be new starts in Octave.
> Having identified these possible packages, I'm afraid the standard
> "work on what you are interested in" will not help me here.  What
> would help is knowing whether packages like these are getting some
> attention already, whether there would be much demand, and insight
> into the dependency structure (i.e., I do not yet know enough about
> level set methods to know if it would helpful to have a wavelet
> package already in place).

For the last couple of months I've been wanting to work on functions for
level set segmentation, but I haven't had the time. Specifically, I'm
very interested in the framework for shape priors in level set
segmentation developed by Daniel Cremers and colleagues. So, if this is
something you would like to spend time on, I'd be very interested to
help as much as time allows for.

> As for help, at my school a sabbatical proposal must be accompanied by
> "a letter of endorsement from a scholar outside the college (i.e., a
> non-Calvin scholar or colleague who knows the relevant field of
> scholarship, is familiar with the applicant's previous work, and is in
> a position to assess both the importance of the proposed project and
> the likelihood of its being brought to successful completion)."

I only have a masters degree in Computer Science, so I don't think I'm
qualified to help you with this part (hopefully, I'll start on a phd in
a month or two). But if I can help you here anyway, do let me know.

Søren