Relativistic scale-spaces

  • Authors:
  • Bernhard Burgeth;Stephan Didas;Joachim Weickert

  • Affiliations:
  • Mathematical Image Analysis Group, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bldg. 27, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany;Mathematical Image Analysis Group, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bldg. 27, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany;Mathematical Image Analysis Group, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bldg. 27, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Scale-Space'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Scale Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vision
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper we extend the notion of Poisson scale-space. We propose a generalisation inspired by the linear parabolic pseudodifferential operator $\sqrt{-\Delta+m^2}-m$, 0≤m, connected with models of relativistic kinetic energy from quantum mechanics. This leads to a new family of operators $\{Q^m_t\,|\,0\leq m,t\}$ which we call relativistic scale-spaces. They provide us with a continuous transition from the Poisson scale-space {Pt | t≥0} (for m=0) to the identity operator I (for $m \longrightarrow +\infty$). For any fixed t00 the family $\{Q_{t_0}^m~|~ m\geq 0\}$ constitutes a scale-space connecting I and $P_{t_0}$. In contrast to the α-scale-spaces the integral kernels for $Q^m_t$ can be given in explicit form for any m,t≥0 enabling us to make precise statements about smoothness and boundary behaviour of the solutions. Numerical experiments on 1D and 2D data demonstrate the potential of the new scale-space setting.