Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the Year

• BIOMED Summer School: Galen has organized the Biomedical Image Analysis Summer School : Modalities, Methodologies & Clinical Research at Paris between July 9^th and July 14^th, 2012 involving international leaders/contributors in the field of biomedical image analysis as instructors where approx 100 participants were selected from an outstanding number of applications.

• China Research Council Award: Chaohui Wang was the recipient of the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding (self-financed) PhD. In 2012, a total of 495 awards were given worldwide in all disciplines, with 17 Chinese students in France receiving awards.

• CVPR Participation: GALEN has participated in the 2012 annual IEEE Conference in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'12) conference, the leading event in the field of computer vision with five papers (double blind full submissions, acceptance rate %25).

• EU FP7 Success: GALEN has secured cutting edge research funding from the European Union through the highly competitive 2012 "Cognitive Vision and Robotics" FP7-ICT-9 call (5% acceptance) through two accepted grants (out of 12 for the entire call): MOBOT (Intelligent Active MObility Assistance RoBOT integrating Multimodal Sensory Processing, Proactive Autonomy and Adaptive Interaction) and RECONFIG (Cognitive, Decentralized Coordination of Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems).

• MICCAI Participation: GALEN has participated in the 2012 annual Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI'12) conference one of the leading events in the field of medical image analysis with four papers (double blind full submissions, acceptance rate %30) and two invited talks in the associated workshops.