Image processing by minimising Lp norms

  • Authors:
  • A. Kuijper

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt and & Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany 64283

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this work, we take a novel line of approaches to evolve images. It is motivated by the total variation method, known for its denoising and edge-preserving effect. Our approach generalises the TV method by taking a general L p norm of the gradients instead of the L 1 in the TV method. We generalise this method in a series of first and second order derivatives in terms of gauge coordinates. This method also incorporates the well-known blurring by a Gaussian filter and the balanced forward--backward diffusion.The method and its properties are briefly discussed. The practical results are visualised on a real-life image, showing the expected behaviour. When a constraint is added that penalises the distance of the results to the input image, one can vary the desired amount of blurring and denoising.