1. Approximation of the Mumford–Shah functional by phase fields of bounded variation.
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Belz, Sandro and Bredies, Kristian
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MARKOV random fields , *FUNCTIONS of bounded variation , *IMAGE segmentation , *IMAGE processing , *IMAGE denoising - Abstract
In this paper, we introduce a new phase field approximation of the Mumford–Shah functional similar to the well-known one from Ambrosio and Tortorelli. However, in our setting the phase field is allowed to be a function of bounded variation, instead of an H 1 -function. In the context of image segmentation, we also show how this new approximation can be used for numerical computations, which contains a total variation minimization of the phase field variable, as it appears in many problems of image processing. A comparison to the classical Ambrosio–Tortorelli approximation, where the phase field is an H 1 -function, shows that the new model leads to sharper phase fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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