Luminița Aura Vese is a
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...
n professor of mathematics at the
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...
, known for her research in
image processing
An image or picture is a visual representation. An image can be two-dimensional, such as a drawing, painting, or photograph, or three-dimensional, such as a carving or sculpture. Images may be displayed through other media, including a pr ...
, including work on
active contour models,
level-set methods,
image segmentation
In digital image processing and computer vision, image segmentation is the process of partitioning a digital image into multiple image segments, also known as image regions or image objects (Set (mathematics), sets of pixels). The goal of segmen ...
, and
inpainting.
Contributions
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.
The Vese–Osher and Osher–Solé–Vese models are optimization problems used for
noise reduction
Noise reduction is the process of removing noise from a signal. Noise reduction techniques exist for audio and images. Noise reduction algorithms may distort the signal to some degree. Noise rejection is the ability of a circuit to isolate an u ...
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.
With Carole Le Guyader, Vese is the author of the book ''Variational Methods in Image Processing'' (CRC Press, 2016).
Education and career
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. 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. After taking a temporary position at
Paris Dauphine University, she joined the University of California, Los Angeles faculty in 2000. She received a
Sloan Research Fellowship
The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States.
...
in 2003.
References
External links
Home page*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vese, Luminita
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Romanian mathematicians
West University of Timișoara alumni
21st-century American mathematicians
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Sloan Research Fellows
21st-century American women mathematicians