Joost Batenburg

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Joost Batenburg [1]

Kees Joost Batenburg,
a Dutch computer scientist and mathematician with M.Sc. degress in mathematics and CS, and Ph.D. in mathematics from Leiden University, researcher at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Science Park Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and until 2016 professor at Vision Lab, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium. His research interests include discrete and electron tomography, combinatorial optimization, evolutionary algorithms, GPU computing for large-scale scientific computing, image processing, computer vision and inverse problems. He was member of the research team behind the Little Green Machine a GPU Beowulf cluster [2], and the FASTRA II desktop supercomputer designed for tomography.

Nonograms

Along with Walter Kosters, Joost Batenburg researches on Nonograms, picture logic puzzles where a pixel grid has to be filled with black and white pixels, based on a description that indicates the lengths of the consecutive black segments for each row and column. In this puzzle type, the numbers are a form of discrete tomography that measures how many unbroken lines of filled-in squares there are in any given row or column. While the Nonograms that can be found in puzzle books can typically be solved by applying a series of highly local reasoning steps regarding single rows and columns, the general Nonogram problem is NP-hard.

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