Polyakov action on (ρ,g)-equivariant functions application to color image regularization

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Batard;Nir Sochen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Applied Mathematics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel;Department of Applied Mathematics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Venue:
  • SSVM'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We propose a new mathematical model for color images taking into account that color pixels change under transformation of the light source. For this, we deal with (ρ,G)-equivariant functions on principal bundles, where ρ is a representation of a Lie group G on the color space RGB. We present an application to image regularization, by minimization of the Polyakov action associated to the graph of such functions. We test the groups ${\rm I\!R}^{+\ast}$ , DC(3) of contractions and dilatations of ${\rm I\!R}^3$ and SO(3) with their natural matrix representations, as well as ${\rm I\!R}^{+\ast}$ with its trivial representation. We show that the regularization has denoising properties if the representation is unitary and segmentation properties otherwise.