Presentation
The UMI Group Mathematics for Imaging, Vision and their Applications (MIVA) includes members of the Italian Mathematical Union (UMI) interested in the analytical, numerical and applied aspects of the mathematics of imaging and of vision. From a theoretical point of view, over the recent years several analytical and geometrical theories allowing the formulation of several imaging problems in suitable functional spaces by means of classical theories of variational regularisation for ill-posed inverse problems, PDEs and graph-based approaches became increasingly popular. The development of models and algorithms numerically solving these problems also encompasses several other areas in the field of applied mathematics, such as optimisation, linear algebra, scientific computing as well as machine learning approaches. Moreover, several disciplines often face several large image analysis and processing problems. This is the case, for instance, of medical imaging (for CT, PET, EIT acquisitions), biological imaging (microscopy), astronomical imaging and also for the digital restoration of cultural heritage artworks.
The MIVA group has the following objectives:
fostering the scientific exchange between the members of the group in order to promote advances both in the theoretical and applied areas concerned with the mathematics of imaging and vision;
promote the scientific dissemination (seminars, thematic days, conferences), teaching and divulgation activities open both to the technical and to the large audience;
favouring the visibility of the group within the international scene, by promoting collaborations and international meetings and by the acknowledgement of brilliant and particularly distinguished students;
promoting the interaction with other disciplines thanks to the creation of interdisciplinary research projects.
Scientific and technical committee
Serena Morigi (Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Bologna)
Luca Calatroni (I3S, CNRS, France)
Marco Donatelli (Dipartimento di Scienza ed Alta Tecnologia, Università dell'Insubria)
Marco Prato (Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Informatiche e Matematiche, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Matteo Santacesaria (MaLGa Center, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Genova)
UMI representative
Raffaele Cerulli (Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Salerno)