Estimation of the derivatives of a digital function with a convergent bounded error

  • Authors:
  • Laurent Provot;Yan Gérard

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. Clermont 1, ISIT, Aubière, France;Univ. Clermont 1, ISIT, Aubière, France

  • Venue:
  • DGCI'11 Proceedings of the 16th IAPR international conference on Discrete geometry for computer imagery
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We provide a new method to estimate the derivatives of a digital function by linear programming or other geometrical algorithms. Knowing the digitization of a real continuous function f with a resolution h, this approach provides an approximation of the kth derivative f(k)(x) with a maximal error in O(h1/1+k) where the constant depends on an upper bound of the absolute value of the (k + 1)th derivative of f in a neighborhood of x. This convergence rate 1/k+1 should be compared to the two other methods already providing such uniform convergence results, namely 1/3 from Lachaud et. al (only for the first order derivative) and (2/3)k from Malgouyres et al..