We want to understand he concentration of damage in microfractured elastic media. Due to the different scallings of the volume and area (or area and length in two dimensions) the traditional method of homogenization using periodic arrays of cells seems to fail when applied to the Mumford-Shah functional and to periodically fractured domains. In the present paper we are departing from traditiona...

Saleh Kambo, a court historian of Shah Jahan (1628-58), while discussing the buildings, frequently used the phrases such as “makan dilnasheen hai az nasheman hai nuzhat aafreen” which means “heart pleasing buildings and praiseworthy mansions”. Every Mughal building designed surpassed its predecessor in terms of its design quality and decorative details. From the selection of the site to final d...

We propose and analyze extensions of the Mumford-Shah functional for the color images. Our main motivation is the concept of images as surfaces. We also review most of the relevant theoretical background and computer vision literature.

shah ismail established a dynasty in iran on the premises of nationality and religion. to establish national unity in iran, he announced shia as the official religion. his goal was to strengthen iranian national bonds. the presence of uzbeks in the east and ottomans in the west made it necessary that iranian people reinforce their feeling of patriotism and love for they homeland. shah ismail be...

The active contour/snake model [9, 2, 10] is one of the most wellknown segmentation variational models in image processing. However this model suffers from the existence of local minima which makes the initial guess critical for getting satisfactory results. In this paper, we propose to solve this problem by finding global minimizers of the active contour model following the original work of Ch...