Chloe Bones, a second year undergraduate on the MMath programme, has been awarded an EPSRC Vacation Bursary to work with Naratip Santitissadeekorn.  The project title is “Image noise reduction by statistical regularization techniques“. Digital images are typically degraded by various types of noise due to imperfection in the image acquisition processes. A key difficulty in reconstructing the “true” image from a noisy image is that a small amount of noise in the images can lead to enormous errors in the image recovery.  The approach of this project is to employ statistical regularization techniques, which may be formulated in a framework of a Bayesian statistics.