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Nicolas Normand

Nicolas Normand

ARC Research Fellow

PhD, Univ. of Nantes, France, 1997
Phone +61 (3) 9905 9765 FAX +61 (3) 9905 3637

Email:Nicolas.Normand@sci.monash.edu.au

 Decomposition of a chamfer ball in unimodular cones[1] Chamfer ball

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Nicolas’ main research interest concerns various aspects of discrete geometry, with emphasis on discrete projections[2] and discrete distances.

The Mojette Transform, an exact discrete version of the Radon transform, was invented and first developed in Nantes by Nicolas and Prof. Jeanpierre Guédon[6]. Its applications embrace tomography, forward error correction coding, watermarking and data encryption[3, 4, 5]. Nicolas is currently focused on the coding applications of the Finite Radon Transform, another exact discrete version of the Radon transform, actively developed in the School of Physics by Dr Imants Svalbe during the last ten years.

Nicolas has contributed new results on discrete distances through a new propagation-based algorithm and a geometric description of chamfer distances[1, 7].

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  1. Medial axis lookup table and test neighborhood computation for 3D chamfer norms, Nicolas Normand and Pierre Evenou, Pattern Recognition, vol. 42, no. 10, pp. 2288–2296, Oct. 2009. http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00392421
  2. David Coeurjolly and Nicolas Normand, Discrete geometry and projections, in The Mojette Transform: Theory and Applications, jeanpierre Guédon, Ed., ISBN: 9781848210806, chapter 1, pp. 3–20. iste & wiley, Jan. 2009. http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00350126/
  3. Nicolas Normand, Imants Svalbe, Pierre Evenou and Andrew Kingston, Inverse Mojette transform algorithms, in The Mojette Transform: Theory and Applications, Jeanpierre Guιdon, Ed., ISBN: 9781848210806, chapter 5, pp. 85–113. iste & wiley, Jan. 2009. http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00350136/
  4. Joint source-channel coding: secured and progressive transmission of medical compressed images on the Internet, Marie Babel, Benot Parrein, Olivier Déforges, Nicolas Normand, Jeanpierre Guédon and Joseph Ronsin, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 258–269, June 2008. http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00273282/
  5. A geometry driven reconstruction algorithm for the Mojette transform, Nicolas Normand, Andrew Kingston and Pierre Évenou, in Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery, Attila Kuba, László G. Nyúl and Kálmán Palágyi, Eds. Oct. 2006, vol. 4245 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 122–133, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00267628/
  6. The Mojette transform: The first ten years, JeanPierre Guédon and Nicolas Normand, in Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery, Éric Andres, Guillaume Damiand and Pascal Lienhardt, Eds. Apr. 2005, vol. 3429 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 79–91, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00267621/
  7. Convex structuring element decomposition for single scan binary mathematical morphology, Nicolas Normand, in Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery, Ingela Nyström, Gabriella Sanniti di Baja and Stina Svensson, Eds. Nov. 2003, vol. 2886 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 154–163, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00267523/