Metrics of Curves for Shape Analysis and Shape Optimization

Period of duration of course
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Course info
Number of course hours
20
Number of hours of lecturers of reference
20
Number of hours of supplementary teaching
0
CFU 3
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Type of exam

Written and oral exams, seminars

Prerequisites

This course is proposed to PhD students, but may be apt to last year undergraduates, since the presentations is mostly self-contained.

Programme

We will see the mathematics that stands behind some sections of Computer Vision, and in particular the so called “Shape Spaces theory”; we will address mostly the case in which the shape space is a space of closed immersed curves in the plane. To this end, we will consider this Shape Space of Immersed Curves as an infinite dimensional Differentiable Manifold; we will develop a convenient calculus; we will endow this manifold with some choices of Riemannian metrics that have been proposed in the current literature. These models justify the methods called active contours that are used for Shape Optimization; the active contour methods try to minimize a functional using a gradient descent approach; the functional is designed to achieve a task , such as image segmentation or tracking. These Riemannian Manifold models at the same time define some tools that are useful in Shape Analysis, such as “distance between two curves” or “geodetic of curves”. Time remaining, we will address some possible definitions of probabilities on spaces of curves.

Educational aims

We will review some elements in Riemannian Geometry, Functional Analysis, Global Analysis, consequently we will explore some contemporary research themes.

Bibliographical references

The 2019/20 notes are in https://didattica.sns.it/pluginfile.php/30736/mod_folder/content/0/2020-02-28-notes_final.pdf  and contain bibliographic references.