Unsupervised joint image denoising and active contour segmentation in multidimensional feature space (Q1793086)

Summary: We describe a new method for simultaneous image denoising and level set-based active contour segmentation using multidimensional features. We consider an image to be a surface embedded in a Riemannian manifold. By defining a metric in the embedded space, which in our case includes multidimensional image features as well as a level set-based active contour model, a minimization problem in the image space can be obtained through the Polyakov action framework. The resulting minimization problem is solved with a dual algorithm for efficiency. Benefits of this new method include the fact that it is independent of any artificial ``running'' parameters, and experiments using both synthetic and real images show that the method is robust with respect to noise and blurry object boundaries.