\Gamma-Convergence of an Ambrosio-Tortorelli approximation scheme for image segmentation

DOI10.1512/IUMJ.2024.73.9777MaRDI QIDQ6131705zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Irene Fonseca, Lisa Maria Kreusser, Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Matthew Thorpe

Publication date 18 April 2024

Published in Indiana University Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.04965

zbMATH Keywords

image segmentation\(\Gamma\)-convergenceAmbrosio-Tortorelli functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Image analysis in multivariate analysis (62H35) Computing methodologies for image processing (68U10) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Existence of optimal solutions to problems involving randomness (49J55)

Abstract: Given an image $u_0$, the aim of minimising the Mumford-Shah functional is to find a decomposition of the image domain into sub-domains and a piecewise smooth approximation $u$ of $u_0$ such that $u$ varies smoothly within each sub-domain. Since the Mumford-Shah functional is highly non-smooth, regularizations such as the Ambrosio-Tortorelli approximation can be considered which is one of the most computationally efficient approximations of the Mumford-Shah functional for image segmentation. Our main result is the $Gamma$-convergence of the Ambrosio-Tortorelli approximation of the Mumford-Shah functional for piecewise smooth approximations. This requires the introduction of an appropriate function space. As a consequence of our $Gamma$-convergence result, we can infer the convergence of minimizers of the respective functionals.

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