[visionlist] Call for Participants: ISBI 2013 Challenge on 3D Deconvolution Microscopy

[Cédric Vonesch]

EPFL's Biomedical Imaging Group invites participants to register for the 
3D Deconvolution Microscopy Challenge that will take place in the 
framework of the 2013 ISBI conference.

ISBI is IEEE's flagship conference on biomedical imaging. The challenge 
is officially endorsed by the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Bio 
Imaging and Signal Processing (BISP) Technical Committee. More 
information about these events is available here:

http://www.biomedicalimaging.org/2013/program/isbi-challenges/

The aim of the challenge is to benchmark existing deconvolution 
algorithms and software packages, as well as to stimulate the community 
to look for novel, global and practical approaches to this problem. The 
challenge will be organized as a three-stage tournament (training, 
qualification and final). It will be based on novel realistic-looking 
synthetic data sets representing various sub-cellular structures. In 
addition it will rely on a number of common and advanced performance 
metrics to objectively assess the quality of the results.

Detailed information on the challenge and a registration form can be 
found here:

http://bigwww.epfl.ch/deconvolution/challenge/index.html?p=overview

Training data is now available and participants are invited to register 
by January 28, 2013.

Please forward this announcement to other colleagues working in the 
field of image deconvolution.