Image Segmentation by Variational Methods: Mumford and Shah Functional and the Discrete Approximations
Antonin Chambolle · SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics · 1995
In this paper we discuss the links between Mumford and Shah’s variational problem for (signal and) image segmentation, based on an energy functional of a continuous grey-level function, and the numerical algorithms proposed to solve it. These numerical approaches are based on a discrete functional. We recall that, in one dimension, this discrete functional is asymptotically equivalent to the continuous functional. This can be summarized in a $\Gamma $-convergence result. We show that the same result holds in dimension two, provided that the continuous energy is adapted to the anisotropy of the discrete approaches. We display a few experimental results in dimensions one and two.