This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the latest advances
in the mathematical theory and computational tools for modeling
high-dimensional data drawn from one or multiple low-dimensional
subspaces (or manifolds) and potentially corrupted by noise, gross
errors, or outliers. This challenging task requires the development of
new algebraic, geometric, statistical, and computational methods for
efficient and robust estimation and segmentation of one or multiple
subspaces. The book also presents interesting real-world applications of
these new methods in image processing, image and video segmentation,
face recognition and clustering, and hybrid system identification etc.
This book is intended to serve as a textbook for graduate students and
beginning researchers in data science, machine learning, computer
vision, image and signal processing, and systems theory. It contains
ample illustrations, examples, and exercises and is made largely
self-contained with three Appendices which survey basic concepts and
principles from statistics, optimization, and algebraic-geometry used in
this book.
René Vidal is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director
of the Vision Dynamics and Learning Lab at The Johns Hopkins University.
Yi Ma is Executive Dean and Professor at the School of Information
Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University. S. Shankar Sastry
is Dean of the College of Engineering, Professor of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science and Professor of Bioengineering at the
University of California, Berkeley.