Variational approach for edge-preserving regularization using coupled PDEs

  • Authors:
  • S. Teboul;L. Blanc-Feraud;G. Aubert;M. Barlaud

  • Affiliations:
  • Lab. Inf. Signaux et Syst. de Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

This paper deals with edge-preserving regularization for inverse problems in image processing. We first present a synthesis of the main results we have obtained in edge-preserving regularization by using a variational approach. We recall the model involving regularizing functions φ and we analyze the geometry-driven diffusion process of this model in the three-dimensional (3-D) case. Then a half-quadratic theorem is used to give a very simple reconstruction algorithm. After a critical analysis of this model, we propose another functional to minimize for edge-preserving reconstruction purposes. It results in solving two coupled partial differential equations (PDEs): one processes the intensity, the other the edges. We study the relationship with similar PDE systems in particular with the functional proposed by Ambrosio-Tortorelli (1990, 1992) in order to approach the Mumford-Shah (1989) functional developed in the segmentation application. Experimental results on synthetic and real images are presented