Luminița Vese

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Luminița Aura Vese is a Romanian professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, known for her research in image processing, including work on active contour models, level-set methods, image segmentation, and inpainting.

Contributions[edit]

The Chan–Vese method of image segmentation using active contours is named after her and Tony F. Chan; Chan and Vese published the method in 2001.[1]

The Vese–Osher and Osher–Solé–Vese models are optimization problems used for noise reduction of images, by decomposing an image into a sum of signal and noise in a way that optimizes a combination of measures of the smoothness of the image and the total amount of noise. They are again named after Vese, and her co-authors Stanley Osher and Andrés Solé on two papers published in 2003.[2]

With Carole Le Guyader, Vese is the author of the book Variational Methods in Image Processing (CRC Press, 2016).

Education and career[edit]

Vese earned bachelor's and master's degrees in 1992 at the West University of Timișoara in Romania. She then moved to the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in France, earning a second master's degree in 1992 and completing her doctorate in 1997.[3] Her dissertation, Problèmes variationnels et EDP pour l’analyse d’image et l’évolution des courbes, was jointly supervised by Gilles Aubert and Michel Rascle.[4] After taking a temporary position at Paris Dauphine University, she joined the University of California, Los Angeles faculty in 2000.[3] She received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2003.[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Niethammer, Marc; Pohl, Kilian M.; Janoos, Firdaus; Wells, William M., III (2017), "Active mean fields for probabilistic image segmentation: connections with Chan-Vese and Rudin-Osher-Fatemi models", SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 10 (3): 1069–1103, arXiv:1501.05680, doi:10.1137/16M1058601, MR 3679914, PMC 5642306, PMID 29051796{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Jin, Yan; Jost, Jürgen; Wang, Guofang (September 2011), "A nonlocal version of the Osher–Solé–Vese model", Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 44 (2): 99–113, doi:10.1007/s10851-011-0313-z, S2CID 17430797
  3. ^ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF), UCLA Mathematics Department, retrieved 2019-05-15
  4. ^ Luminița Vese at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ Past Fellows, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, retrieved 2019-05-17

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