IMA Prize for Elissa Eggenweiler

April 18, 2019 /

Elissa Eggenweiler was awarded the prize at the University of Oxford.

Our SFB 1313 doctoral researcher Elissa Eggenweiler (research project A03 "Development of interface concepts using averaging techniques") from the Institute for Applied Analysis and Numerical Simulations was awarded an IMA prize for extraordinary results and best team performance during the UK Graduate Modelling Camp at the University of Oxford. She worked together with her project team on the vasculature reconstruction based on facial images using different image processing techniques.

The Graduate Modelling Camp is a 4-day workshop that aims to provide PhD students more experience of mathematical modelling, particulary in research topics which are not directly connected to the own research area. The problems to be considered during this workshop are inspired by real life problems that have arisen in industry or science.

The IMA prize was given to the group which was doing best in scientific communication, team work, mathematical modelling, presentation of results and justification of main ideas.

Elissa Eggenweiler on the Oxford Campus
The main task of the project was to extract the superficial facial vasculature from thermal images using mathematical tools known from image processing.
As an additional task and this was a great success, Elissa and her team managed to estimate the heart rate from (optical) video data using similar tools as for the extraction of the vascular structure.
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