J4 ›› 2013, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (2): 67-71+137.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-2400.2013.02.012

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Image decomposition using the non-convex functional

BAI Jian;FENG Xiangchu   

  1. (School of Science, Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China)
  • Received:2012-06-25 Online:2013-04-20 Published:2013-05-22
  • Contact: BAI Jian E-mail:keywhite29@126.com

Abstract:

This paper proposes a new model for image decomposition by non-convex functional minimization. Instead of using the Banach norm as the fidelity term, we use the integral of the square of residual component divided by its gradient as the fidelity term. This non-convex fidelity term has a very low value for the texture image and a high value for the geometric image, so it is appropriate for image decomposition. The gradient descent procedure is used to solve the proposed minimization problem, which leads to evolving a new nonlinear second-order partial differential equation(PDE) to a steady state. Compared with the total variation minimization(TV) model and the fourth-order PDE(OSV) model, the proposed nonlinear second-order PDE maintains many more sharp edges, so the texture part has less cartoon information. Experimental results also demonstrate that our model performs better than the standard TV and OSV models in image decomposition.

Key words: image decomposition, total variation minimization, functional minimization, non-convex functional

CLC Number: 

  • TP751