Scale-Space Properties of Regularization Methods

  • Authors:
  • Esther Radmoser;Otmar Scherzer;Joachim Weickert

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SCALE-SPACE '99 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Scale-Space Theories in Computer Vision
  • Year:
  • 1999
  • A non-convex PDE scale space

    Scale-Space'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Scale Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vision

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Abstract

We show that regularization methods can be regarded as scale-spaces where the regularization parameter serves as scale. In analogy to nonlinear diffusion filtering we establish continuity with respect to scale, causality in terms of a maximum-minimum principle, simplification properties by means of Lyapunov functionals and convergence to a constant steady-state. We identify nonlinear regularization with a single implicit time step of a diffusion process. This implies that iterated regularization with small regularization parameters is a numerical realization of a diffusion filter. Numerical experiments in two and three space dimensions illustrate the scale-space behaviour of regularization methods.