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Title: NONCONVEX REGULARIZATION FOR SHAPE PRESERVATION

Conference ·
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  1. Los Alamos National Laboratory

The authors show that using a nonconvex penalty term to regularize image reconstruction can substantially improve the preservation of object shapes. The commonly-used total-variation regularization, {integral}|{del}u|, penalizes the length of the object edges. They show that {integral}|{del}u|{sup p}, 0 < p < 1, only penalizes edges of dimension at least 2-p, and thus finite-length edges not at all. We give numerical examples showing the resulting improvement in shape preservation.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
1000753
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-07-0291; TRN: US201101%%537
Resource Relation:
Conference: IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE PROCESSING ; 200709 ; SAN ANTONIO
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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