Frank NIELSEN

Email: nielsen@lix.polytechnique.fr
Téléphone: +33 1 69 33 40 89
Bureau 10-22
Fax: +33 1 69 33 30 14

Research interests

• Computational (information) geometry (Geometrie algorithmique),
• Combinatorial optimization (Optimisation combinatoire),
• Machine vision (Vision par ordinateur),
• Computer graphics and interactive techniques, computational photography (Infographie),
• Machine learning (Apprentissage et classification).

Emerging Trends (and Challenges) in Visual Computing (ETVC'08)

Publications

• Frank Nielsen and Richard Nock, On the smallest enclosing information disk , Volume 105, Issue 3, 31 January 2008, Pages 93-97 , doi:10.1016/j.ipl.2007.08.007
• Richard Nock, Nicolas Sanz, Fred Celimene, Frank Nielsen, Staring at Economic Aggregators through Information Lenses (18 pages, Arxiv.org/abs/0801.0390v1)
• Frank Nielsen and Richard Nock, The entropic centers of multivariate normal distributions (EuroCG'08, 4-page PDF)
• Frank Nielsen and Richard Nock, Quantum Voronoi diagrams (EuroCG'08, 4-page PDF)
• Frank Nielsen, An interactive tour of Voronoi diagrams on the GPU , ShaderX6, Charles River Media, book chapter+source codes, February 2008.
• Frank Nielsen and Richard Nock Approximating smallest enclosing balls with applications to machine learning , International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications(IJCGA), 2008.

Forthcoming program comittees

• October 27-31 2008, Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS 2008)

Teaching (Enseignements)

• Introduction to java programming: INF311 (2008. Introduction a l'informatique)