Analysis of total variation flow and its finite element approximations

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In image processing and geometric measure theory one has to minimize the following penalized functional \[ J_\lambda(u):= \int_\Omega|\nabla u|\,dx+{\lambda\over 2} \int_\Omega| u-g|^2 \,dx, \] \(\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N\) \((N\geq 2)\), \(\lambda\geq 0\), \(g\) are given. Its gradient flow (called TV flow) is defined as follows: \[ \begin{aligned} {\partial u\over\partial t}= \text{div} \left({\nabla u\over|\nabla u|}\right)- \lambda(u- g)\quad&\text{in }\;\Omega_T= \Omega\times (0,T),\\ {\partial u\over\partial n}= 0\quad&\text{on }\;\partial\Omega_G= \partial\Omega\times (0,T),\\ u(\cdot,0)= u_0(\cdot)\quad &\text{in }\;\Omega. \end{aligned} \] The regularized TV flow (corresponding to the energy functional \(J_{\lambda,\varepsilon}(u):= \int_\Omega \sqrt{|\nabla u|^2+ \varepsilon^2}\,dx+ {\lambda\over 2} \int_\Omega| u-g|^2\,dx\), \(\varepsilon> 0\)) is the following one: \({\partial u^\varepsilon\over\partial t}= \text{div}({\nabla u^\varepsilon\over \sqrt{|\nabla u^\varepsilon|^2+\varepsilon^2}})- \lambda| u^\varepsilon- g|\) in \(\Omega_T\), \({\partial u^\varepsilon\over\partial n}= 0\) on \(\partial\Omega_T\), \(u^\varepsilon(\cdot, 0)= u_0(\cdot)\). A solution to the TV flow (respectively, to its regularized counterpart) is meant as a function of an appropriate regularity satisfying a weak variational inequality. The authors prove the unique existence of the solution \(u^\varepsilon\) to the regularized TV flow, some regularity results, a priori estimates and the convergence of \(u^\varepsilon\) to a solution of the TV flow as \(\varepsilon\to 0\) in \(L^p\), \(1\leq p<{N\over N-1}\). Next, the authors propose a fully discrete finite element method for the regularized TV flow. They give an error analysis for the solution of this approximate method and prove convergence results and a priori error estimates for \(u^\varepsilon\) smooth enough. For \(\lambda= 0\) numerical examples are given.



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