Speaker: Jessica Da Silva, California State University, Stanislaus

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) has several research programs for undergraduates and faculty. In this talk, we will explore an image processing project I worked on through the Visiting Faculty Program with my two undergraduate students and a laboratory scientist. In particular, we focused our efforts on image segmentation which partitions an image into its structural components. Our team developed and incorporated a hyper graph model into a pre-existing graph-based image segmentation algorithm. Our journey through this project was tough, considering we needed to learn C++ as beginner coders, but it paid off as our preliminary results are promising. For more information, http://web.sonoma.edu/math/