Graduated Nonconvexity by Functional Focusing

  • Authors:
  • Mads Nielsen

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Reconstruction of noise-corrupted surfaces may be stated as a (in general nonconvex) functional minimization problem. For functionals with quadratic data term, this paper addresses the criteria for such functionals to be convex, and the variational approach for minimization. I present two automatic and general methods of approximation with convex functionals based on Gaussian convolution. They are compared to the Blake-Zisserman graduated nonconvexity (GNC) method and Bilbro et al. and Geiger and Girosi's mean field annealing (MFA) of a weak membrane.