Mathematical Methods in Image Processing Code: MTH 5050 – Special Topics CSE 5880 – Advanced Topics in Computer Graphics Instructor : Dr Gnana Bhaskar Tenali Office : S-317 Contact Details : Tel. No . 674-7213 (0ff) e-mail : gtenali@fit.edu Lecture Hours : Tuesday, Thursday : 5.00 pm – 7.45 pm Venue : S 112 Office Hours : Tuesday, Thursday : 4.00pm – 5.00 pm ( and by appointment) Course Contents : Mathematical Preliminaries : Image Restoration : Differential Geometry ; Direct Methods in Calculus of Variations; Spaces of functions of bounded variations ; Viscosity solutions in PDE; The Energy Method ; PDE Based Methods; Image Segmentation : Mumford and Shaw Functional; The Geodesic Active Contours ; Level Set Method References : 1. G. Aubert and P. Kornprobst, Mathematical Problems in Image Processing, Applied Mathematical Sciences 147, Springer, 2002. 2. Andrew Pressley, Elementary Differential Geometry, Springer, 2003. 3. LC Evans, Partial Differential Equations, Proceedings of AMS, 1998. 4. JB Conway, A course Functional Analysis, Springer, 1990. 5. B. Dacorogna, Direct Methods in Calculus of Variations, AMS, Springer, 1989. Evaluation is based on a seminar presentation(s) on an assigned topic(s).