Welcome!

 
 

Associate Professor in the Image Analysis and Computer Graphics research group, at the department of Informatics and Mathematical Modelling of the Technical University of Denmark.


Education: a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia (U.B.C., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) with courses in algebraic topology and algebraic geometry from the Department of Mathematics of U.B.C..


Ph. D. thesis: "Voronoi diagrams of semi-algebraic sets"

Supervisor: Dr. David Kirkpatrick

My book (Ph.D. thesis) on Voronoi diagrams of semi-algebraic sets (NEW):


Post-doctoral fellowship: Alberta Ingenuity Fund Fellowship in Computer Graphics (implicit modeling with semi-algebraic sets) at the Laboratory of Visual and Interactive Computing (VIC) in the Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada).

Supervisor: Dr. Brian Wyvill


Research interests:


  1. Bullet Computational geometry

  2. Bullet Computational topology,

  3. Bullet Interval analysis,

  4. Bullet Computational algebra,

  5. Bullet Hybrid symbolic/scientific computation,

  6. Bullet Computational algebraic geometry/topology,

  7. Bullet Computer graphics,

  8. Bullet Applications to Bioinformatics,

  9. Bullet Image reconstruction,

  10. Bullet Spatial databases,

  11. Bullet Geoinformatics.


Membership in professional organisations / Programme Committees / Links:


  1. Bullet Member of the American Mathematical Society

  2. Bullet Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews

  3. Bullet Member of the steering and programme committees of the International Symposium on Voronoi Diagrams (ISVD)

  4. Bullet Co-chair of the ISPRS Commission II, WorkGroup 5 on Multi-Dimensional and Mobile Data Models

  5. Bullet Member of the Programme Committee of the International Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications (CGA)

  6. Bullet Member of the Programme Committee of the Symposium on Geometric Processing (SGP)

  7. Bullet My page at the AMS Mathematical Genealogy project

  8. Bullet Centre de Calcul Médicis (Symbolic Computation centre)


 

François Anton

NEW!: STUDENT PROJECTS FOR  COURSES 02507 (Image analysis and optimization) and 02503 (Advanced Image Analysis) or M. Sc.

NEW!: M.Sc./Ph.D. projects (Please contact me)


Teaching AT DTU


  1. Bullet 02288 Advanced databases (spatial, temporal, spatio-temporal and multimedia databases)

  2. Bullet 02170 Database Systems

  3. Bullet 02585 Computational Geometry Processing (with David Brander and  Jakob Andreas Bærentzen )

  4. Bullet 30540 Mapping from Aerial and Satellite Images (with Allan Aasbjerg Nielsen)

  5. Bullet 02612 Constrained Optimisation (previous course in 2007 taught with John Bagterp Jørgensen, Hans Bruun Nielsen, Marielba Rojas)


Previous teaching


Université de Moncton:

Introduction to Software Engineering

Files and Databases


University of Calgary:

Introduction to Spatial Databases


University of New Brunswick, Fredericton:

Introduction to Spatial Databases



PUBLICATIONS


publications (done while at imm)


some earlier publications (in a publications database)



FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS (AT DTU)


Supervised

Ph. D. Students


Ojaswa Sharma (co-superviser: Niels Jørgen Christensen)


Deogratius Musiige (industrial Ph.D. grant with Nokia, co-supervisers: Darka Mioc DTU-Space, Vincent Laulagnet and Michael Sjøstrøm,  Nokia


Nikos Yiotis (co-supervisers: Rasmus Reinhold Paulsen and Jakob Andreas Bærentzen)


Marek Krzysztof Misztal (with Jakob Andreas Bærentzen)


Supervised

M. SC. Students


Deogratius Musiige ( graduated in March 2009)


Jumana Ali El-soubaihi


Nicolai Depenau Rasmussen

Jon Carlsen


Collaborations



Bo Lundgren, Bjarne Stage, DTU Aqua Hirsthals; Rasmus Nielsen, Uffe Høgsbro Thygesen, DTU Aqua Charlottenlund

Thomas Halmeryck, The BioInformatics Centre, University of Copenhagen