Diffusions and Confusions in Signal and Image Processing

  • Authors:
  • N. Sochen;R. Kimmel;A. M. Bruckstein

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. sochen@math.tau.ac.il;Department of Computer Science, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel. ron@cs.technion.ac.il;Department of Computer Science, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel. freddy@cs.technion.ac.il

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

In this paper we link, through simple examples, between three basic approaches for signal and image denoising and segmentation: (1) PDE axiomatics, (2) energy minimization and (3) adaptive filtering. We show the relation between PDE's that are derived from a master energy functional, i.e. the Polyakov harmonic action, and non-linear filters of robust statistics. This relation gives a simple and intuitive way of understanding geometric differential filters like the Beltrami flow. The relation between PDE's and filters is mediated through the short time kernel.