IASIM-2024

Conference program

Plenary lecture

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  Paul Geladi

  Paul Geladi (born Belgium 1951, living in Umeå, Sweden since 1987) is now Emeritus Professor in Chemometrics and still active in research projects dealing with Chemometrics, Vibrational Spectroscopy and Spectroscopic Imaging. He has a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Antwerp University 1979. He has been teaching Experimental Design, Multivariate Data Analysis, Multivariate Calibration and Hyperspectral Imaging for a few decades. He is coauthor of three scientific books and more than 180 scientific papers. The number of citations is over 25000. He has been active in research in Seattle (WA) and Potsdam (NY), USA, Vasa, Finland, Stellenbosch, South Africa and Ås, Norway.

Keynotes

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  Shedding light on Active Hyperspectral Imaging with Supercontinuum Sources

  Carolina Santos Silva

  Carolina obtained her PhD in Chemistry at the Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil). She worked as a post-doctoral in the same institution (2018-2021), and at the University of Malta (2021-2022). She is a research scientist in the Optical Spectroscopy team at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (since 2022). Her background includes the development of innovative analytical solutions to meet society's demands using optical sensors and chemometrics. Fields of application include forensic chemistry, food analysis, mining, etc.

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  How far can hyperspectral imaging uncover microplastics in the environment?

  Cristiane Vidal

  Cristiane is from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo – Brazil, where she did her Ph.D. in hyperspectral imaging combined with chemometrics for microplastic identification in beach sand, as well as for food fraud. She has a strong background in environmental analytical chemistry working as a Research Chemist for over 12 years at UNICAMP, collaborating with projects related to emerging contaminants in the environment and hyperspectral imaging acquisition and processing in many areas of study.

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  Photonic Data Science. The journey from vibrational spectroscopic data to knowledge

  Thomas Bocklitz

  Thomas studied physics at the university of Jena, and he received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry/chemometrics from the same university in 2011. In 2013 he became head of a junior research group “Statistical Modelling and Image Analysis” at the university of Jena. Since 2019 he is head of the research department “Photonic data science” at the Leibniz IPHT. His main research area is closely connected with the photonic data life cycle, which contains machine learning and chemometrics based modeling of photonic data. He has published more than 130 publications in peer reviewed journals and gave more than 50 invited talks on conferences. The work of Thomas Bocklitz was award with prestigious awards, like the Bruce Kowalski award in 2015, the Kaiser-Friedrich research-award in 2018 and the ERC Consolidator grant 2022.

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  Spectral measurements of agricultural products. Lights and shadows

  Jose Blasco

  Jose Blasco received his MSc (1994) and PhD (2001) in Computer Science at Universitat Politècnica de València. He worked for IBM Spain (1994-1996) as a system analyst before joining the Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA), leading the Laboratory of Computer Vision in Agriculture. His research is focused on developing computer vision, spectral solutions, robotics, and precision agriculture applications for the agri-food sector.
  In 2014, he became the head of the Agricultural Engineering Centre of IVIA. Since 2012, he is charing the CIGR International Working Group on Image Analysis and Spectroscopy for Agricultural Products and Processes. He has participated in more than 40 research projects and 13 contracts with companies, obtained 8 patents, published 85 peer-reviewed, 40 extension papers, 20 book chapters and more than 180 contributions and talks at conferences. His work has received awards from the CIGR and EurAgEng.

Workshops

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  1. Image transformations

  Sergey Kucheryavskiy

  When: 6th of July, 9:00-13:00
  Software needed: Python (3.10 or later), Visual Studio Code This workshop is devoted to the basics of digital image processing — image transformations. We will start with brief overview about how digital images are represented, talk about vector and raster formats, compressions, etc. Then we will use Python notebooks and several additional packages (will install everything together on workshop) to learn how to load images, how to work with images as multidimensional arrays, how to do geometrical transformations, arithmetic transformations and convolution of digital images and, finally, how to make a chain of processing units and apply this chain to a batch of images. Most of the examples will be based using conventional RGB images, but, at the end, we will try to apply the learned skills to a hyperspectral images as well.

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  2. Hyperspectral and Multivariate Image Analysis

  Neal B. Gallagher

  When: 6th of July, 14:00-18:00
  Previous knowledge needed: Principal Component Analysis (Multivariate Curve Resolution and Regression would also be useful).
  Software: For those interested, instructor lead hands-on examples will be provided using [Solo + MIA_Toolbox] or [MATLAB and PLS_Toolbox + MIA_Toolbox]. Full demo versions can be downloaded at http://www.eigenvector.com/. Hyperspectral imaging provides spatial and spectral information for an imaged sample or scene and multivariate image analysis provides tools for exploring and extracting information from measured images. After a brief introduction to hyperspectral imaging, the course will explain how images are represented in the MATLAB environment. Tools for image exploration will be introduced including principal components analysis, maximum autocorrelation factors, maximum difference factors, multivariate curve resolution and divisive cluster analysis. The course will finish by discussing decluttering and target detection. Decluttering used to enhance and refocus signals in an image, and target detection is used to detect specific analytes of interest within an image. The course content will be useful for those involved in chemical, food, forensics, pharmaceutical and medical imaging, and remote and standoff imaging,

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  3. Introduction to deep learning on spectral data

  Artzai Picon Ruiz

  When: 7th of July, 9:00-13:00
  Software needed: Python (3.10 or later), Visual Studio Code This workshop will focus on the use of Deep learning in spectral imaging. First, we will introduce the concepts of Deep learning and how it is applied to signal and spectral imaging for classification, regression or segmentation tasks. We will study which network architectures are more appropriate to each type of task and we will include concepts such as self-supervised learning and finetuning for the reduction of data requirements in these systems. We will apply what we have learned in a small use case.