Who are we?

JM&LA (Jean-Michel Morel and Luis Alvarez)

Jean-Michel Morel received a Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1980 from the University P. et M. Curie (Paris, France). Since 1997, he is professor of Mathematics at the City University of Hong Kong. His mathematical research is focused on automatic algorithms for image and video analysis and synthesis. 

National and international awards: 2010 Clay Scholar in Residence, 2010 European Research Council advanced grant, 2013 Grand Prix INRIA – Académie des Sciences, 2015 CNRS médaille de l’innovation, 2015 IEEE Longuet-Higgins prize, 2017 Doctor honoris causa, Universidad de la República, Montevideo.

Luis Alvarez   Luis Alvarez received a M.Sc. in Mathematics in 1985 and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in 1988, both from Universidad Complutense (Madrid, Spain).  Since 2000, he is full professor in Computer Sciences at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC). His main research areas are Partial Differential Equations and Computer Vision, including topics like image filtering, mathematical morphology, camera calibration, stereo vision, optical flow, medical imaging, snakes, lens distortion models, abstract texture synthesis, etc.. Luis Alvarez has published more than 120 research papers and he has been or is an editor of the following international journals : IJCV, JMIV, SIIMS, JRTIP and IPOL.

Colaborators, past and present: Yann Gousseau,  Bruno Galerne, Agustin Salgado and Nelson Monzon