Threshold Dynamics for Image Segmentation

In joint work with Richard Tsai, we describe efficient algorithms, based on the threshold dynamics idea of Merriman, Bence, and Osher, for minimizing the piecewise constant Mumford-Shah functional of image segmentation.

1. Esedoglu, S.; Tsai, Y.-H. Threshold dynamics for the piecewise constant Mumford-Shah functional. Journal of Computational Physics. 211:1 (2006), pp. 367-384.