Title :
Modified curvature motion for image smoothing and enhancement
Author :
Yezzi, Anthony, Jr.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA
fDate :
3/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We formulate a general modified mean curvature based equation for image smoothing and enhancement. The key idea is to consider the image as a graph in some R72, and apply a mean curvature type motion to the graph. We consider some special cases relevant to grey-scale and color images
Keywords :
graph theory; image colour analysis; image enhancement; motion estimation; smoothing methods; color images; general modified mean curvature based equation; graph; grey-scale images; image enhancement; image smoothing; mean curvature type motion; modified curvature motion; Color; Computer vision; Differential equations; Image processing; Level set; Nonlinear equations; Partial differential equations; Smoothing methods; Surface treatment; Two dimensional displays;
Journal_Title :
Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on
