Existence and regularity of minimizers of a functional for unsupervised multiphase segmentation

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 181-201

  Kang, Sung Ha ^a   March, Riccardo ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calculus of variations; Computer vision; Image segmentation

Indexed keywords

CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS; COMPUTER EXPERIMENT; CONNECTED SUBSET; EXISTENCE AND REGULARITY; IMAGE DOMAIN; MUMFORD-SHAH; OPTIMAL ANGLE; OPTIMAL NUMBER; REGULARITY PROPERTIES; SETS OF FINITE PERIMETER; TRIPLE JUNCTION; UNSUPERVISED SEGMENTATION; VARIATIONAL MODELS; WEAK SOLUTION;

COMPUTER VISION; OPTIMIZATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84867093129     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2012.08.014     Document Type: Article

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