DocumentCode
1340945
Title
Modified curvature motion for image smoothing and enhancement
Author
Yezzi, Anthony, Jr.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA
Volume
7
Issue
3
fYear
1998
fDate
3/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
345
Lastpage
352
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;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1057-7149
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/83.661184
Filename
661184
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