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Affine invariant segmentation by variational method. (English) Zbl 0860.68112

Summary: Affine invariance, viewed as a simplified projective invariance, is an essential requirement for analysis of natural scenes. We propose an affine invariant analogue of Mumford and Shah energy functional to segment images and we discuss it. We present a simple multiscale algorithm to minimize it, based on region growing methods, and we display our first numerical experiments.

MSC:

68U10 Computing methodologies for image processing
49J45 Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation
65C20 Probabilistic models, generic numerical methods in probability and statistics
49Q20 Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting
65D10 Numerical smoothing, curve fitting
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