A multigrid approach for minimizing a nonlinear functional for digital image matching (Q1581112)

The authors consider a multigrid applications in digital image processing. The problem is to find a map, which transforms an image \(T\) into another image \(R\) such that the grey level of the different images are nearly equal in every picture-element. This problem arises in the investigation of human brains. The complete inverse problem is ill-posed in the sense of Hadamard and nonlinear, which makes numerical solution difficult. They solve the inverse problem by a Landweber iteration. In each minimization step an approximate solution for the linearized problem is computed with a multigrid method as an inner iteration. The authors also gave some experimental results for synthetic and real images.