Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8900785 Applied Mathematics and Computation 2018 36 Pages PDF
Abstract
Segmentation remains an important problem in image processing. For homogeneous images containing only piecewise smooth information, a number of important models have been developed and refined over the past several decades. However, these models often fail when applied to the substantially larger class of natural images that simultaneously contain regions of homogeneity and non-homogeneity such as texture. This work introduces a bi-level constrained minimization model for simultaneous multiphase segmentation of images containing both homogeneous and textural regions. We develop novel norms defined in different functional Banach spaces for the segmentation which results in a non-convex minimization. Finally, we develop a generalized notion of segmentation delving into approximation theory and demonstrating that a more refined decomposition of these images results in multiple meaningful components. Both theoretical results and demonstrations on natural images are provided.
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