Geometric-Variational Approach for Color Image Enhancement and Segmentation

  • Authors:
  • Ron Kimmel;Nir A. Sochen

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SCALE-SPACE '99 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Scale-Space Theories in Computer Vision
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We merge techniques developed in the Beltrami framework to deal with multi-channel, i.e. color images, and the Mumford-Shah functional for segmentation. The result is a color image enhancement and segmentation algorithm. The generalization of the Mumford-Shah idea includes a higher dimension and codimension and a novel smoothing measure for the color components and for the segmenting function which is introduced via the Γ-convergence approach. We use the Γ-convergence technique to derive, through the gradient descent method, a system of coupled PDEs for the color coordinates and for the segmenting function.