Artificial Intelligence, Computer Technologies, and Software Applications in Image Processing and Image Segmentation
Prof. Mária Ždímalová
Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a fundamental driving force in the evolution of image processing and image segmentation, transforming the way visual data is analyzed, interpreted, and utilized across scientific and industrial fields. Traditional image processing relied on mathematical models and manually designed algorithms, while AI introduces data-driven learning that enables systems to automatically extract, classify, and reconstruct image features. Through advanced methods such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), U-Nets, and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), AI enhances image quality, detects patterns, and segments complex structures with exceptional precision. In image segmentation, AI-based approaches outperform classical techniques by recognizing semantic relationships and contextual dependencies within visual scenes, allowing accurate delineation of objects, boundaries, and regions. These advancements have broad applications in medical imaging, architecture, environmental monitoring, and autonomous systems, where high accuracy and automation are essential. Furthermore, AI-driven segmentation contributes to real-time decision-making, pattern recognition, and 3D reconstruction. Despite challenges such as data bias, computational demands, and interpretability, AI continues to redefine the field by merging intelligent perception with mathematical rigor. The integration of artificial intelligence into image processing establishes a new paradigm of adaptive, self-learning systems capable of achieving superior visual understanding and analytic efficiency.
Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Constructive Geometry,
Slovak University of Technology Mária Ždímalová currently works at the
Department of Mathematics and Constructive Geometry, Slovak University of
Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia. Maria does research in Applied Mathematics,
Mathematical Modelling, Algebra and Graph Theory. Their current project is 'Arch
Math: Mathematics and Architecture, Design, Fashion, Art,' Algebraic Graph Theory
as well as Graph Algorithms in Image Processing and Digital Topology and
Mathematical Modelling, AL in image processing. She did habilitation to get assoc.
prof. degree in 2019 June in the field: Applied Mathematics, at Slovak University of
Technology in Bratislava, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovakia. She is involved in
many international and local government research grants where she participates as
a researcher and also as a leader. She is also doing many international revisions
and reports in different high level international scientific journals. She had many
invited talks in India, Dubai, Spain, Italy, North Macedonia, India, IEEE Section talks
on IIT KHARAGPUR India, Athens in Greece, South Africa and many others. She
participated at many international conferences and also research stages around the
world, also on other continents, e.g, in Indonesia, in Mexico (Middle/South
America). She is also advisor for many bachelor, and diploma students for final
theses. She was guided and cooperated also with students from foreign countries,
e.g. India. She has 40 research papers in WOS and Scopus databases, but
together she has almost 64 research papers in collaboration with many international
coauthors. She also involves and support young people in research, where she
involves her students into scientific papers and projects. She participated at many
educational and research invitations, conferences and workshops and stays like in
England, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Belgium, Poland, Czech Republic, Serbia, North
Macedonia, Turkey, Czech Republic, Hungary, Serbia, Romania, Turkey. She was
as well as PhD Examiner & Committee Member a sought-after External
Examiner for doctoral theses in Ethiopia and South Africa. This means she officially
validates the quality of PhD research for local universities in Africa. She is part of
Editorial Wisaarkhu Journal in South Africa, part of editorial board in Indonesia:
Editorial Team: Indonesian Journal of Combinatorics. She participates as well as in
Reviewer Board in the high evaluated international Journal Symmetry.
Teaching:
- Calculus I, II
- Mathematical Logic
- Graph Theory
- Calculus for Architecture http://archmath.webnode.sk/ https://www.facebook.com/Arch-Math-492082727664971/
- Mathematics in Architecture http://archmath.webnode.sk/,
- Mathematical principles and statistics
- Statistics
- International Lecturer at BIP 2025 in Reggio Calabria, Italy
- Lectures for international students during her Erasmus projects in foreign countries
- Lectures for doctoral and postdoctoral students in Mexico, Queretaro, 2016
- Lectures and talk in Technical Museum for students in Serbia, Belgrade 2023
Education:
- 2019 June, doc. Degree, Associate professor, field: Applied Mathematics
- Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Faculty of Civil Engineering
- Department of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry, Slovakia
- Title of the Dissertation: Large networks and their properties
- 2010 November, Ph.D. Degree, Applied Mathematics, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry, Slovakia
- Title of the Dissertation: Large vertex – transitive and Cayley graphs and digraphs of given degree and diameter
- 2003 – 2009 Ph.D. Studies at Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Mathematics and Descriptive geometry
- 2003MSc. Degree, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science
- 1998 – 2003 Master Studies, Mathematics and Physics
- Additional information on education: 2006 – 2007 E – learning courses from Projective Geometry and Chapters for Teaching of the Mathematics – certificates, Comenius University in Bratislava