"Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision" ed. by Xue-Cheng Tai, Knut Morken, Marius Lysaker, Knut-Andreas Lie

The 71 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on segmentation and detection; image enhancement and reconstruction; motion analysis, optical flow, registration and tracking; surfaces and shapes; scale space and feature extraction.





This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Scale Space Methods and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, SSVM 2009, emanated from the joint edition of the 5th International Workshop on Variational, Geometric and Level Set Methods in Computer Vision, VLSM 2009 and the 7th International Conference on Scale Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vision, Scale-Space 2009, held in Voss, Norway in June 2009.

Table of Contents
Segmentation and Detection
Graph Cut Optimization for the Piecewise Constant Level Set Method
Applied to Multiphase Image Segmentation . - Egil Bae and Xue-Cheng Tai
Tubular Anisotropy Segmentation - Fethallah Benmansour and Laurent D. Cohen
An Unconstrained Multiphase Thresholding Approach for Image Segmentation - Benjamin Berkels
Extraction of the Intercellular Skeleton from 2D Images of Embryogenesis Using Eikonal Equation and Advective Subjective Surface Method - Paul Bourgine, Peter Frolkovic, Karol Mikula, Nadine Peyrieras, and Mariana Remesıkova
On Level-Set Type Methods for Recovering Piecewise Constant
Solutions of Ill-Posed Problems - Adriano DeCezaro, Antonio Leit˜ao, and Xue-Cheng Tai
The Nonlinear Tensor Diffusion in Segmentation of Meaningful
Biological Structures from Image Sequences of Zebrafish Embryogenesis - Olga Drblıkova, Karol Mikula, and Nadine Peyrieras
Composed Segmentation of Tubular Structures by an Anisotropic PDE Model - Elena Franchini, Serena Morigi, and Fiorella Sgallari
Extrapolation of Vector Fields Using the Infinity Laplacian and with Applications to Image Segmentation - Laurence Guillot and Carole Le Guyader
A Schr¨odinger Equation for the Fast Computation of Approximate Euclidean Distance Functions - Karthik S. Gurumoorthy and Anand Rangarajan
Semi-supervised Segmentation Based on Non-local Continuous Min-Cut - Nawal Houhou, Xavier Bresson, Arthur Szlam, Tony F. Chan, and Jean-Philippe Thiran
Momentum Based Optimization Methods for Level Set Segmentation - Gunnar Lathen, Thord Andersson, Reiner Lenz, and Magnus Borga
Optimization of Divergences within the Exponential Family for Image - Segmentation - Francois Lecellier, Stephanie Jehan-Besson, Jalal Fadili, Gilles Aubert, and Marinette Revenu
Convex Multi-class Image Labeling by Simplex-Constrained Total Variation - Jan Lellmann, Jorg Kappes, Jing Yuan, Florian Becker, and Christoph Schnorr
Geodesically Linked Active Contours: Evolution Strategy Based on Minimal Paths - Julien Mille and Laurent D. Cohen
Validation of Watershed Regions by Scale-Space Statistics - Tomoya Sakai and Atsushi Imiya
Adaptation of Eikonal Equation over Weighted Graph - Vinh-Thong Ta, Abderrahim Elmoataz, and Olivier Lezoray
A Variational Model for Interactive Shape Prior Segmentation and Real-Time Tracking - Manuel Werlberger, Thomas Pock, Markus Unger, and Horst Bischof
Image Enhancement and Reconstruction
A Nonlinear Probabilistic Curvature Motion Filter for Positron Emission Tomography Images - Musa Alrefaya, Hichem Sahli, Iris Vanhamel, and Dinh Nho Hao
Finsler Geometry on Higher Order Tensor Fields and Applications to High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging - Laura Astola and Luc Florack
Bregman-EM-TV Methods with Application to Optical Nanoscopy - Christoph Brune, Alex Sawatzky, and Martin Burger
PDE-Driven Adaptive Morphology for Matrix Fields - Bernhard Burgeth, Michael Breuß, Luis Pizarro, and Joachim Weickert
On Semi-implicit Splitting Schemes for the Beltrami Color Flow - Lorina Dascal, Guy Rosman, Xue-Cheng Tai, and Ron Kimmel
Multi-scale Total Variation with Automated Regularization Parameter
Selection for Color Image Restoration - Yiqiu Dong and Michael Hintermuller
Multiplicative Noise Cleaning via a Variational Method Involving Curvelet Coefficients - Sylvain Durand, Jalal Fadili, and Mila Nikolova
Projected Gradient Based Color Image Decomposition - Vincent Duval, Jean-Fran¸cois Aujol, and Luminita Vese
A Dual Formulation of the TV-Stokes Algorithm for Image Denoising - Christoffer A. Elo, Alexander Malyshev, and Talal Rahman
Anisotropic Regularization for Inverse Problems with Application to the Wiener Filter with Gaussian and Impulse Noise - Micha Feigin and Nir Sochen
Locally Adaptive Total Variation Regularization - Markus Grasmair
Basic Image Features (BIFs) Arising from Approximate Symmetry Type - Lewis D. Griffin, Martin Lillholm, Mike Crosier, and Justus van Sande
An Anisotropic Fourth-Order Partial Differential Equation for Noise Removal - Mohammad Reza Hajiaboli
Enhancement of Blurred and Noisy Images Based on an Original Variant of the Total Variation - Khalid Jalalzai and Antonin Chambolle
Coarse-to-Fine Image Reconstruction Based on Weighted Differential Features and Background Gauge Fields - Bart Janssen, Remco Duits, and Luc Florack
Edge-Enhanced Image Reconstruction Using (TV) Total Variation and Bregman Refinement - Shantanu H. Joshi, Antonio Marquina, Stanley J. Osher, Ivo Dinov, John D. Van Horn, and Arthur W. Toga
Nonlocal Variational Image Deblurring Models in the Presence of Gaussian or Impulse Noise - Miyoun Jung and Luminita A. Vese
A Geometric PDE for Interpolation of M-Channel Data - Frank Lenzen and Otmar Scherzer
An Edge-Preserving Multilevel Method for Deblurring, Denoising, and Segmentation - Serena Morigi, Lothar Reichel, and Fiorella Sgallari
Fast Dejittering for Digital Video Frames - Mila Nikolova
Sparsity Regularization for Radon Measures - Otmar Scherzer and Birgit Walch
Split Bregman Algorithm, Douglas-Rachford Splitting and Frame Shrinkage - Simon Setzer
Anisotropic Smoothing Using Double Orientations - Gabriele Steidl and Tanja Teuber
Image Denoising Using TV-Stokes Equation with an Orientation-Matching Minimization - Xue-Cheng Tai, Sofia Borok, and Jooyoung Hahn
Augmented Lagrangian Method, Dual Methods and Split Bregman Iteration for ROF Model - Xue-Cheng Tai and Chunlin Wu
The Convergence of a Central-Difference Discretization of Rudin-Osher-Fatemi Model for Image Denoising - Ming-Jun Lai, Bradley Lucier, and Jingyue Wang
Theoretical Foundations for Discrete Forward-and-Backward Diffusion Filtering - Martin Welk, Guy Gilboa, and Joachim Weickert
L0-Norm and Total Variation for Wavelet Inpainting - Andy C. Yau, Xue-Cheng Tai, and Michael K. Ng
Total-Variation Based Piecewise Affine Regularization - Jing Yuan, Christoph Schnorr, and Gabriele Steidl
Image Denoising by Harmonic Mean Curvature Flow - Mourad Zeraı
Motion Analysis, Optical Flow, Registration and Tracking
Tracking Closed Curves with Non-linear Stochastic Filters - Christophe Avenel, Etienne Memin, and Patrick Perez
A Multi-scale Feature Based Optic Flow Method for 3D Cardiac Motion Estimation - Alessandro Becciu, Hans van Assen, Luc Florack, Sebastian Kozerke, Vivian Roode, and Bart M. ter Haar Romeny
A Combined Segmentation and Registration Framework with a Nonlinear Elasticity Smoother - Carole Le Guyader and Luminita A. Vese
A Scale-Space Approach to Landmark Constrained Image Registration - Eldad Haber, Stefan Heldmann, and Jan Modersitzki
A Variational Approach for Volume-to-Slice Registration - Stefan Heldmann and Nils Papenberg
Hyperbolic Numerics for Variational Approaches to Correspondence Problems - Henning Zimmer, Michael Breuß, Joachim Weickert, and Hans-Peter Seidel
Surfaces and Shapes
From a Single Point to a Surface Patch by Growing Minimal Paths - Fethallah Benmansour and Laurent D. Cohen
Optimization of Convex Shapes: An Approach to Crystal Shape Identification - Timo Eirola and Toni Lassila
An Implicit Method for Interpolating Two Digital Closed Curves on Parallel Planes - Nikolaos Gabrielides and Laurent Cohen
Pose Invariant Shape Prior Segmentation Using Continuous Cuts and Gradient Descent on Lie Groups - Niels Chr. Overgaard, Ketut Fundana, and Anders Heyden
A Non-local Approach to Shape from Ambient Shading - Emmanuel Prados, Nitin Jindal, and Stefano Soatto
An Elasticity Approach to Principal Modes of Shape Variation - Martin Rumpf and Benedikt Wirth
Pre-image as Karcher Mean Using Diffusion Maps: Application to Shape and Image Denoising - Nicolas Thorstensen, Florent Segonne, and Renaud Keriven
Fast Shape from Shading for Phong-Type Surfaces - Oliver Vogel, Michael Breuß, Thomas Leichtweis, and Joachim Weickert
Generic Scene Recovery Using Multiple Images - Kuk-Jin Yoon, Emmanuel Prados, and Peter Sturm
Scale Space and Feature Extraction
Highly Accurate PDE-Based Morphology for General Structuring Elements - Michael Breuß and Joachim Weickert
Computational Geometry-Based Scale-Space and Modal Image
Decomposition: Application to Light Video-Microscopy Imaging - Anatole Chessel, Bertrand Cinquin, Sabine Bardin, Jean Salamero, and Charles Kervrann
Highlight on a Feature Extracted at Fine Scales: The Pointwise Lipschitz Regularity - Christophe Damerval and Sylvain Meignen
Line Enhancement and Completion via Linear Left Invariant Scale Spaces on SE(2) - Remco Duits and Erik Franken
Spatio-Featural Scale-Space - Michael Felsberg
Scale Spaces on the 3D Euclidean Motion Group for Enhancement of HARDI Data - Erik Franken and Remco Duits
On the Rate of Structural Change in Scale Spaces .- David Gustavsson, Kim S. Pedersen, Francois Lauze, and Mads Nielsen
Transitions of a Multi-scale Image Hierarchy Tree - Arjan Kuijper
Local Scale Measure for Remote Sensing Images - Bin Luo, Jean-Fran¸cois Aujol, and Yann Gousseau
Author Index