Cambridge Image Analysis

About the Group

The Cambridge Image Analysis Group (CIA) in DAMTP is specialising in the mathematics of digital image and video processing using partial differential equations and variational methods. Our research ranges from the modelling and analysis of such methods to their computational realisation and application. In particular, we are interested in

• Image retrieval and enhancement from corrupted and under sampled measurements
• Sparsity promoting regularisation such as total variation and higher-order regularisation
• Image restoration
• Image segmentation and object tracking
• Image registration and motion compensation
• Large scale computing
• Machine learning, in particular deep learning and graphical models
• Optimisation
• Applications in processing of photographs, biomedical imaging (MRI, PET/SPECT, microscopy imaging), arts restoration, remote sensing, just to name a few.

For more details see our Research page.

News

• Jan'23 Our PostDoc Nicolas Boulle is a finalist for the IMA Lighthill Thwaites Prize.
• Aug'22 Our PostDoc Yury Korolev has been offered a lecturer position at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath.
• Jul'22 Our PostDoc Chao Li has been awarded the 2022 British Neuro-Oncology Society (BNOS) Young Investigator Award.
• Apr'22 We win the John Ockendon Prize (2022) for our paper "Structure-preserving deep learning". The John Ockendon Prize was established for EJAM in 2016 and is awarded every two years to the best paper published in EJAM over that period, as voted by the Editorial Board.
• Jan'22 Our Newton Fellow Marcello Carioni has started a new job as Assistant Professor at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
• Jan'22 Our PostDoc Rihuan Ke has been offered a lecturer position at the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol. He will start his new job on Feb 2022.
• Jan '22 Our PostDoc Tatiana A. Bubba has been offered a lecturer position at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath. She started her new job in Jan 2022. 
• Dec'21 Our PostDoc Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero has been elected to be the SIAM SIAG/IS Elected Secretary. She will serve as an officer for the term beginning 1/1/2022.
• Nov'21 Our PostDoc Lei Zhu has been offered an assistant professor position in HKUST (Guangzhou). He will start his new job on Dec 2021.
• Jun'21 Our PhD student Derek Driggs has won the second prize in the 20th IMA Leslie Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis and gave a talk about his work together with the other finalists. Recordings of the talks will be made available soon.
• Jun'21 CIA Group Leader Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb and the BloodCounts! Team have won a 2nd prize award for the Trinity Challenge 2021 with their work on using AI to scan a full blood count test for abnormal changes. Read more here.
• Jun’21 Newly awarded £3.5M EPSRC Programme Grant EP/V026259/1 Maths4DL on the Mathematics of Deep Learning, joint between Bath, Cambridge and UCL, starting in January 2022. We are advertising for two Post Doctoral Positions at both Bath and at Cambridge, deadline 30th June. - See our vacancies page for more info.
• Apr’21 Plus Magazine publishes the article "Seeing traffic through new eyes" about our work from the INTEGRAL collaboration.
• Mar’21 The Royal Society publishes a blogpost on “A day in the life of an applied mathematician: Professor Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb”
• Mar’21 CIA Group Leader Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb is being awarded a prestigious EPSRC Established Career Fellowship. This will support Carola's development of a new hybrid approach for solving inverse imaging problems by combining knowledge-driven and data-driven methods.
• Mar’21 The AIX-COVNET collaboration publishes their study on AI/ML approaches for Covid diagnostics in Nature Machine Intelligence.
• Jan’21 Press release from the UK government on “AI at the forefront efforts to treat coronavirus patients” featuring an interview with Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb about our Covid-19 collaboration and the National COVID-19 Chest Imaging Database (NCCID).
• Jan’21 MathsWorks publishes article "AI Unveils the Secrets of Ancient Artifacts” about the work of the Mathematics for Applications in Cultural Heritage (MACH) initiative, a collaboration including some of our group members.
• Sept’20 Our PostDoc Yury Korolev is being awarded an EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on “Regularisation theory in the data driven setting”.
• Aug’20 Our PostDoc Lisa Maria Kreusser wins the Reinhart-Heinrich Doctoral Thesis Award for her PhD thesis 'Anisotropic nonlinear PDE models and dynamical systems in biology’.
• Jul’20 Our PostDoc Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero and former PostDoc Jingwei Liang together with our head of the group Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb win the 2020 ICML Outstanding Paper Award for the publication “Tuning-free Plug-and-Play Algorithm for Inverse Imaging Problems”.
• Jun’20 Our PostDoc Jonas Latz wins the 2020 SIAM Student Paper Prize for the publication “On the Well-posedness of Bayesian Inverse Problems”.