Seminar on Mathematics for various disciplines

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Date, time & place Tuesday 10:30 - 11:30 056Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)

2005/06/22

16:30-17:30   Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Y. H. Richard Tsai (University of Texas)
Threshold Dynamics for the Piecewise Constant
[ Abstract ]
We propose an efficient algorithm for minimizing the piecewise constant Mumford-Shah functional of image segmentation. It is based on the threshold dynamics of Merriman, Bence, and Osher for evolving an interface by its mean curvature. We show that a very fast minimization can be achieved by alternating the solution of a linear parabolic partial differential equation and simple thresholding. We discuss our current work of extending this line of work to higher order accuracy and to applications involving Willmore flow.
[ Reference URL ]
http://coe.math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/sympo/various/index.html