Title
A Phase Field Method for Joint Denoising, Edge Detection, and Motion Estimation in Image Sequence Processing
Abstract
The estimation of optical flow fields from image sequences is incorporated in a Mumford-Shah approach for image denoising and edge detection. Possibly noisy image sequences are considered as input and a piecewise smooth image intensity, a piecewise smooth motion field, and a joint discontinuity set are obtained as minimizers of the functional. The method simultaneously detects image edges and motion field discontinuities in a rigorous and robust way. It is able to handle information on motion that is concentrated on edges. Inherent to it is a natural multiscale approximation that is closely related to the phase. eld approximation for edge detection by Ambrosio and Tortorelli. We present an implementation for two-dimensional image sequences with finite elements in space and time. This leads to three linear systems of equations, which have to be solved in a suitable iterative minimization procedure. Numerical results and different applications underline the robustness of the approach presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1137/060677409
SIAM JOURNAL ON APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
image processing,phase field method,Mumford-Shah,optical flow,denoising,edge detection,segmentation,finite element method
Mathematical optimization,Motion field,Feature detection (computer vision),Edge detection,Image processing,Robustness (computer science),Motion estimation,Optical flow,Piecewise,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
68
3
0036-1399
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.53
19
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
T. Preußer1657.76
Marc Droske219412.12
Christoph S. Garbe38012.11
Alexandru Telea41520107.14
Martin Rumpf550.53