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Hands-On Image Processing with Python
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Hands-On Image Processing with Python

by Sandipan Dey
November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
492 pages
12h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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Variational image processing

In this section, we shall very briefly discuss variational methods in image processing, with an example application in denoising. Image processing tasks can be viewed as function estimation (for example, segmentation can be thought of as finding a smooth closed curve between an object and the background). Calculus of variations can be used for minimization of the appropriately defined energy functionals (with the Euler-Langrange method) for a specific image processing task, and the gradient descent method is used to evolve towards the solution.

The following diagram describes the basic steps in an image processing task, represented as a variational optimization problem. First, we need to create an energy functional ...

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