Handbook of Mathematical Models and Algorithms in Computer Vision and Imaging: Mathematical Imaging and Vision: Vol 3

This handbook gathers together the state of the art on mathematical models and algorithms for imaging and vision. Its emphasis lies on rigorous mathematical methods, which represent the optimal solutions to a class of imaging and vision problems, and on effective algorithms, which are necessary for the methods to be translated to practical use in various applications. Viewing discrete images as data sampled from functional surfaces enables the use of advanced tools from calculus, functions and calculus of variations, and nonlinear optimization, and provides the basis of high-resolution imaging through geometry and variational models. Besides, optimization naturally connects traditional model-driven approaches to the emerging data-driven approaches of machine and deep learning.  No other framework can provide comparable accuracy and precision to imaging and vision.

Written by leading researchers in imaging and vision, the chapters in this handbook all start with gentle introductions, which make this work accessible to graduate students. For newcomers to the field, the book provides a comprehensive and fast-track introduction to the content, to save time and get on with tackling new and emerging challenges. For researchers, exposure to the state of the art of research works leads to an overall view of the entire field so as to guide new research directions and avoid pitfalls in moving the field forward and looking into the next decades of imaging and information services. This work can greatly benefit graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in imaging and vision; applied mathematicians; medical imagers; engineers; and computer scientists.

Ke Chen received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics, respectively, from the Dalian University of Technology (China), University of Manchester (UK) and University of Plymouth (UK). Dr. Chen is a computational mathematician specialised in developing novel and fast numerical algorithms for various scientific computing (especially imaging) applications. He has been the Director of a Multidisciplinary Research Centre for Mathematical Imaging Techniques (CMIT) since 2007, and the Director of the EPSRC Liverpool Centre of Mathematics in Healthcare (LCMH) since 2015. He heads a large group of computational imagers, tackling novel analysis of real-life images. His group’s imaging work in variational modelling and algorithmic development is mostly interdisciplinary, strongly motivated by emerging real-life problems and their challenges: image restoration, image inpainting, tomography, image segmentation and registration.