From Inpainting to Active Contours

Authors:
François Lauze;Mads Nielsen
Affiliations:
Nordic Bioscience A/S, Herlev, Denmark 2370;Nordic Bioscience A/S, Herlev, Denmark 2370 and DIKU, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 2100
Venue:
International Journal of Computer Vision
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Background subtraction is an elementary method for detection of foreground objects and their segmentations. Obviously it requires an observation image as well as a background one. In this work we attempt to remove the last requirement by reconstructing the background from the observation image and a guess on the location of the object to be segmented via variational inpainting method. A numerical evaluation of this reconstruction provides a "disocclusion measure" and the correct foreground segmentation region is expected to maximize this measure. This formulation is in fact an optimal control problem, where controls are shapes/regions and states are the corresponding inpaintings. Optimization of the disocclusion measure leads formally to a coupled contour evolution equation, an inpainting equation (the state equation) as well as a linear PDE depending on the inpainting (the adjoint state equation). The contour evolution is implemented in the framework of level sets. Finally, the proposed method is validated on various examples. We focus among others in the segmentation of calcified plaques observed in radiographs from human lumbar aortic regions.