Seminario Matematico e Fisico Symposium
On the occasion of 150th Year of Politecnico di Milano
February 28 - March 1, 2013


Andrea L. Bertozzi
Director of Applied Mathematics University of California Los Angeles
url: www.math.ucla.edu/~bertozzi
Title of the talk: Geometric Methods in Image Processing, Networks, and Machine Learning

Abstract: Geometric methods have revolutionized the field of image processing and image analysis. I will review some of these classical methods including image snakes, total variation minimization, image segmentation methods based on curve minimization, diffuse interface methods, and state of the art fast computational algorithms that include ideas from compressive sensing. Recently some of these concepts have shown promise for problems in high dimensional data analysis and machine learning on graphs. I will give an overview of some of the classical results from imaging and ongoing work in high dimensional and network data.