On Total Variation Minimization and Surface Evolution Using Parametric Maximum Flows

  • Authors:
  • Antonin Chambolle;Jérôme Darbon

  • Affiliations:
  • CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, Palaiseau, France 91128;Mathematics Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Computer Vision
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In a recent paper Boykov et al. (LNCS, Vol. 3953, pp. 409---422, 2006) propose an approach for computing curve and surface evolution using a variational approach and the geo-cuts method of Boykov and Kolmogorov (International conference on computer vision, pp. 26---33, 2003). We recall in this paper how this is related to well-known approaches for mean curvature motion, introduced by Almgren et al. (SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization 31(2):387---438, 1993) and Luckhaus and Sturzenhecker (Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations 3(2):253---271, 1995), and show how the corresponding problems can be solved with sub-pixel accuracy using Parametric Maximum Flow techniques. This provides interesting algorithms for computing crystalline curvature motion, possibly with a forcing term.