Jon Sporring
Professor, Ph.D.Short CV
Jon Sporring received his Master and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science (DIKU), University of Copenhagen, Denmark in 1995 and 1998, respectively. Part of his Ph.D. program was carried out at IBM Research Center, Almaden, California, USA. Following his Ph.D, he worked as a visiting researcher at the Computer Vision and Robotics Lab at Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas, Greece, and as an assistant research professor at 3D-Lab, School of Dentistry, University of Copenhagen. During 2003-2018 he was an associate professor at DIKU. From 2008-2009 he was a part-time Senior Researcher at Nordic Bioscience a/s. In the period 2012-13, he is a visiting professor at the School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Jon Sporring also co-founded DigiCorpus Aps in 2012 and served as Chief research officer of the company from 2012-16 developing computer vision-based systems for automatic feedback for physiotherapeutic rehabilitation. In 2007-2012, 2015-2019, and 2021 he was Deputy head for Research at DIKU. Since 2018, he is a full professor at DIKU, and since 2019 he is the Deputy head of the Center for Quantifying Images for MAXIV (QIM).
Research Interests
My primary research field is Computer Science (Datalogi) and particularly mathematical and biomedical image processing (Billedbehandling) and pattern recognition (Mønstergenkendelse) and artificial intelligence (Kunstig intelligens, AI). I'm involved in Danish Bioimaging and Quantifying images from MAXIV (and other synchrotron resources) Presently I'm involved in the following projects:
- Statistics of subcellular geometric structures: We reconstruct and study the 3d dimensional structure of the synaptic area as seen through electron microscopes.
- Larger than memory image processing: We work on fast streaming algorithms for general image processing problems.
Events
I am involved in the following events:
- Presenter at the IEEE Nordic Chapters Workshop on Advanced Signal/Image processing, 26 January 2026, Stavanger, Norway.
- Backing group for the Session 2 at RheoMAXESS: Where Users Meet Techniques, 5 February 2026, Denmark.
- Backing group for the Delifood workshop on With better figures and statistics, have grants and papers accepted, 20 February 2026, Denmark.
- Area chair for the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026, 3-7 June 2026, Denver, USA.
- Backing group for the Ph.D. school on uncertainty in machine learning, 10-14 August 2026, Denmark.
- Previous events
Teaching
I teach computer science at bachelor, master, and phd level. Presently I'm involved in the following courses:
- Matematisk analyse og sandsynlighedsteori (Danish, Computer Science, Bachelor course, description)
- Programmering og problemløsning (Danish, Computer Science, Bachelor course, description)
- Numerical Optimisation (Danish, Computer Science, Master course, description)
- Lineær algebra i datalogi (Danish, Computer Science, Bachelor course, description)
- Cross Institutional Bioimaging (English, Biology, Ph.d. course, link, Material: github/sporring/ImageProcessingCrashCourse/Python)
- Previous courses
For students seeking bachelor and master theses please see:
- my and the rest of the Image section's project ideas Trello board
- our invitation to do a deep-dive in research in bio-image analysis
Ph.D. students:
- Chenhao Wang, 2021-
- Mette Bjerg Lindhøj, 2018-2021
- Hans Jacob Teglbjærg Stephensen, 2018-2021
- Leise Borg, 2014-2018
- Mahdieh Khanmohammadi, 2012-2015
- Alessandro Crimi, 2008-2011
- Pechin Chien Pau Lo, 2007-2010
- Lauge Sørensen, 2007-2010
- Vladlena Gorbunova, 2007-2010
- Lars Schjøth, 2006-2009
- Kerawit Somchaipeng, 2002-2005
- Niels Holm Olsen, 2000-2003
Public Software Projects.
- Stack Processing, 2026-
- DIKU-Graph, nuget, 2025-
- DIKU-Canvas, nuget, 2020-
- Matlab repository, 1996-
Projects etc.
I am involved in the following projects, groups, and associations:
- The IMAGE section
- The Center for Quantification of Imaging Data from MAX IV (QIM)
- Danish Bioimaging Network (DBI)
- Danish Bioimaging Infrastructure (DBInfra)
- Euro Bioimaging
- Center for Advanced Bioimaging (CAB)
- The Danish national facility for imaging withy X-rays (DANFIX)
- Dansk Selskab for Automatisk Genkendelse af Mønstre (DSAGM)
- Associate Editor for Frontiers in Computer Vision
- Editorial Board of the Journal of Microscopy
Previous projects etc.
- Centre for Stochastic Geometry and Advance Bioimaging (CSGB)
- MAX4 Imagers
- Deep Structure, Singularities, and Computer Vision (DSSCV)
Selected Publications
Please click here for a full list. I also maintain a Google scholar profile.
