Luminița Aura Vese is a Romanian professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, known for her research in image processing, including work on active contour models, level-set methods, image segmentation, and inpainting.
They are again named after Vese, and her co-authors Stanley Osher and Andrés Solé on two papers published in 2003.
[2] With Carole Le Guyader, Vese is the author of the book Variational Methods in Image Processing (CRC Press, 2016).
She then moved to the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in France, earning a second master's degree in 1992 and completing her doctorate in 1997.
[3] Her dissertation, Problèmes variationnels et EDP pour l’analyse d’image et l’évolution des courbes, was jointly supervised by Gilles Aubert and Michel Rascle.