Introduction - If you have any usage issues, please Google them yourself
Mathematical methods are an alternative to tackle visual perception. The central
idea behind these methods is to reformulate the visual perception components
as optimization problems where the minima of a specifically designed objective
function "solve" the task under consideration. The definition of such functions is
often an ill-posed problem since the number of variables to be recovered is much
larger than the number of constraints. Furthermore, often the optimization process
itself is ill-posed due the non-convexity of the designed function inducing the
presence of local minima