Analytical Approximations for Nonlinear Diffusion Time in Multiscale Edge Enhancement

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The image simplification, noise elimination and edge enhancement steps are all fundamental to segmentation tasks. These processing techniques usually require the tuning of their control parameters; a procedure known to be incompatible with automatic segmentation. The aim of this paper is to adopt a procedure, based on nonlinear diffusion, that is capable of auto tuning by means of analytical expressions that relate diffusion times to the gradient module. The numerical method and experimental results are shown in 1D, 2D and 3D.

​The image simplification, noise elimination and edge enhancement steps are all fundamental to segmentation tasks. These processing techniques usually require the tuning of their control parameters; a procedure known to be incompatible with automatic segmentation. The aim of this paper is to adopt a procedure, based on nonlinear diffusion, that is capable of auto tuning by means of analytical expressions that relate diffusion times to the gradient module. The numerical method and experimental results are shown in 1D, 2D and 3D. Read More