*Correspondence: [email protected] 1School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China 2Computational Science Hubei Key Laboratory, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract In this paper we consider a class of bilevel variational inequalities with hierarchical nesting structure. We first ...

In this paper the existence of the contingent epiderivative of a set-valued map is studied from a variational perspective. We give a variational characterization of the ideal minimal of a weakly compact set. As a consequence we characterize the existence of the contingent epiderivative in terms of an associated family of variational systems. When a set-valued map takes values in Rn we show that...

In this paper, we introduce two iterative algorithms (one implicit algorithm and one explicit algorithm) for finding a common element of the solution set of a general system of variational inequalities for continuous monotone mappings and the fixed point set of a continuous pseudocontractive mapping in a Hilbert space. First, this system of variational inequalities is proven to be equivalent to...

We demonstrate that the analytic solution for the set of energy eigenvalues of the semi-relativistic Coulomb problem reported by B. and L. Durand is in clear conflict with an upper bound on the ground-state energy level derived by some straightforward variational procedure.

Characterization of quasiconvexity and pseudoconvexity of lower semicontinuous functions on Banach spaces are presented in terms of abstract subdifferentials relying on a Mean Value Theorem. We give some properties of the normal cone to the lower level set of f . We also obtain necessary and sufficient optimality conditions in quasiconvex and pseudoconvex programming via variational inequalities.

In this paper we review the algorithm development and applications in high resolution shock capturing methods, level set methods and PDE based methods in computer vision and image processing. The emphasis is on Stanley Osher's contribution in these areas and the impact of his work. We will start with shock capturing methods and will review the Engquist-Osher scheme, TVD schemes, entropy conditi...

We propose a level set approach for elliptic inverse problems with piecewise constant coefficients. The geometry of the discontinuity of the coefficient is represented implicitly by level set functions. The inverse problem is solved using a variational augmented Lagrangian formulation with total variation regularization of the coefficient. The corresponding Euler Lagrange equation gives the evo...

In this paper we propose a variant of a binary level set approach for solving elliptic problems with piecewise constant coefficients. The inverse problem is solved by a variational augmented Lagrangian approach with a total variation regularisation. In the binary formulation, the seeked interfaces between the domains with different values of the coefficient are represented by discontinuities of...

This paper presents a variational level set method for simultaneous segmentation and bias field estimation of medical images with intensity inhomogeneity. In our model, the statistics of image intensities belonging to each different tissue in local regions are characterized by Gaussian distributions with different means and variances. According to maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) and Baye...