Title
Multiphase Image Segmentation via Modica-Mortola Phase Transition
Abstract
We propose a novel multiphase segmentation model built upon the celebrated phase transition model of Modica and Mortola in material sciences and a properly synchronized fitting term that complements it. The proposed sine-sinc model outputs a single multiphase distribution from which each individual segment or phase can be easily extracted. Theoretical analysis is developed for the Gamma-convergence behavior of the proposed model and the existence of its minimizers. Since the model is not quadratic nor convex, for computation we adopted the convex-concave procedure ( CCCP) that has been developed in the literatures of both computational nonlinear PDEs and neural computation. Numerical details and experiments on both synthetic and natural images are presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1137/060662708
SIAM JOURNAL ON APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
multiphase,segmentation,variational,partial differential equation,Modica-Mortola model,phase transition,Gamma-convergence,convex splitting,convex-concave procedure
Mathematical optimization,Nonlinear system,Segmentation,Models of neural computation,Quadratic equation,Regular polygon,Image segmentation,Partial differential equation,Mathematics,Computation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
67
5
0036-1399
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
38
1.40
19
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yoon Mo Jung1586.09
Sung Ha Kang243029.39
Jianhong Shen337634.18