A nonlocal Laplacian-based model for bituminous surfacing crack recovery and its MPI implementation (Q2203374)

From the text: This work was devoted to study of the challenging problem -- crack detection on bituminous surfacing images. To overcome the limitation of classical first-order methods -- the inability to capture singularities without jumps -- following the paper by \textit{A. Drogoul} [SIAM J. Imaging Sci. 7, No. 4, 2700--2731 (2014; Zbl 1361.94013)], a second-order approach has been proposed based on a modified elliptic approximation of the Blake-Zisserman functional with a variable encoding the fine structures. A decomposition model has been added to handle the dense and highly oscillatory texture of the images and to discriminate it from the crack. To further improve the quality of the detection, a nonlocal version of the model has been theoretically studied with a new-convergence result, and numerically examined by providing a detailed algorithmic approach and an efficient MPI implementation. The method has been tested on real images given by the CEREMA and shows good performance. It should be mentioned that this paper is an extension of the earlier one by \textit{N. Debroux} et al. [Ann. Math. Sci. Appl. 3, No. 1, 49--88 (2018; Zbl 1404.74009)], and it contains both significant theoretical results and numerical analysis of the presented algorithms.