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Motility at microscopic scales

Abstract: We will discuss the mechanical bases of cellular motility by swimming and crawling.The photo, courtesy of A. Beran (OGS, Trieste), shows some Euglenids exhibiting "metaboly", a type of motio...

Asymptotics of the nonlocal perimeter functional

I will deal with the asymptotic behavior of the s-Perimeter as s goes to 0, providing an explicit formulation in terms of the Lebesgue measure. Moreover, I will construct some examples of sets for whi...

Fish ‘n’ Robots: not a take-out food

Abstract: Engineering design of robots is often inspired by nature; recently developed bioinspired robots accurately imitate various aspects of their live counterparts. Yet, the relationship between e...

Photometric Stereo: Some Recent Contributions

Photometric stereo is a 3D-reconstruction technique which uses n images of a scene taken under different lightings. The case n=1 is the well-known shape-from-shading problem, which is ill-posed. Since...

Soluzioni generalizzate ed ultrafunzioni

La teoria delle distribuzioni ci fornisce la nozione di soluzione generalizzata per problemi che non hanno soluzioni classiche. Comunque ci sono problemi che non hanno soluzione neppure nello spazio d...

Direct Surface Reconstruction using Perspective Shape from Shading via Photometric Stereo

Shape-from-Shading and Photometric Stereo are two fundamental problems in Computer Vision aimed at reconstructing surface depth given either a single image taken under a known light source or multiple...

Il flusso 1-armonico di un campo di versori

Per flusso 1-armonico di un campo di versori si intende, in modo puramente formale, il flusso gradiente (in L^2) della variazione totale di un campo vettoriale vincolato ad assumere valori sulla sfera...