Γ-Convergence approximation to piecewise constant mumford-shah segmentation

  • Authors:
  • Jianhong Shen

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

  • Venue:
  • ACIVS'05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Piecewise constant Mumford-Shah segmentation[17] has been rediscovered by Chan and Vese [6] in the context of region based active contours. The work of Chan and Vese demonstrated many practical applications thanks to their clever numerical implementation using the level-set technology of Osher and Sethian [18]. The current work proposes a Γ-convergence formulation to the piecewise constant Mumford-Shah model, and demonstrates its simple implementation by the iterated integration of a linear Poisson equation. The new formulation makes unnecessary some intermediate tasks like normal data extension and level-set reinitialization, and thus lowers the computational complexity.