Computer Vision News - August 2022

48 Image Registration Workshop also open to virtual participants, who could meet in Gather.Town. “ We really enjoyed holding an in-person event again, ” Mattias tells us. “ It was a very Bavarian experience! We had a gala dinner in a beer garden, pretzels at the workshop, and a nice mix of people from all over Europe, maybe even further away. ” The Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration (WBIR) has just held its 10th edition, having been running for more than 20 years. It’s a MICCAI-endorsed event focused on a specific subfield of medical image analysis that deals primarily with image registration. Like so many other conferences this year, it was hybrid. Back in person in Munich, but Mattias Heinrich is a Professor of Medical Informatics at the University of Lübeck. Alessa Hering is a PostDoc in the Diagnostic Image Analysis Group of the Radboudumc in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and a Scientist at Fraunhofer MEVIS in Lübeck. Alongsid e Julia Schnabel a nd Daniel Rückert, they were two of the General Chairs at last month’s successful WBIR 2022 event. Mattias and Alessa are here to tell us all about it