Weberized Mumford-Shah Model with Bose-Einstein Photon Noise
- School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (United States)
Human vision works equally well in a large dynamic range of light intensities, from only a few photons to typical midday sunlight. Contributing to such remarkable flexibility is a famous law in perceptual (both visual and aural) psychology and psychophysics known as Weber's Law. The current paper develops a new segmentation model based on the integration of Weber's Law and the celebrated Mumford-Shah segmentation model (Comm. Pure Appl. Math., vol. 42, pp. 577-685, 1989). Explained in detail are issues concerning why the classical Mumford-Shah model lacks light adaptivity, and why its 'weberized' version can more faithfully reflect human vision's superior segmentation capability in a variety of illuminance conditions from dawn to dusk. It is also argued that the popular Gaussian noise model is physically inappropriate for the weberization procedure. As a result, the intrinsic thermal noise of photon ensembles is introduced based on Bose and Einstein's distributions in quantum statistics, which turns out to be compatible with weberization both analytically and computationally. The current paper focuses on both the theory and computation of the weberized Mumford-Shah model with Bose-Einstein noise. In particular, Ambrosio-Tortorelli's {gamma}-convergence approximation theory is adapted (Boll. Un. Mat. Ital. B, vol. 6, pp. 105-123, 1992), and stable numerical algorithms are developed for the associated pair ofnonlinear Euler-Lagrange PDEs.
- OSTI ID:
- 21064210
- Journal Information:
- Applied Mathematics and Optimization, Vol. 53, Issue 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1007/s00245-005-0850-1; Copyright (c) 2006 Springer; www.springer-ny.com; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0095-4616
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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