A note on the discrete binary Mumford-Shah model

  • Authors:
  • Jérôme Darbon

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

  • Venue:
  • MIRAGE'07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Computer vision/computer graphics collaboration techniques
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper is concerned itself with the analysis of the two-phase Mumford-Shah model also known as the active contour without edges model introduced by Chan and Vese. It consists of approximating an observed image by a piecewise constant image which can take only two values. First we show that this model with the L1-norm as data fidelity yields a contrast invariant filter which is a well known property of morphological filters. Then we consider a discrete version of the original problem. We show that an inclusion property holds for the minimizers. The latter is used to design an efficient graph-cut based algorithm which computes an exact minimizer. Some preliminary results are presented.