Segmentation plays an important role in many preprocessing stages in image processing. Recently, convex relaxation methods for image multi-labeling were proposed in the literature. Often these models involve the total variation (TV) semi-norm as regularizing term. However, it is well-known that the TV functional is not optimal for the segmentation of textured regions. In recent years directiona...

This review is devoted to dynamical systems in fields of p-adic numbers: origin of p-adic dynamics in p-adic theoretical physics (string theory, quantum mechanics and field theory, spin glasses), continuous dynamical systems and discrete dynamical systems. The main attention is paid to discrete dynamical systems iterations of maps in the field of p-adic numbers (or their algebraic extensions): ...

Over the past years, various representation systems which sparsely approximate functions governed by anisotropic features such as edges in images have been proposed. We exemplarily mention the systems of contourlets, curvelets, and shearlets. Alongside the theoretical development of these systems, algorithmic realizations of the associated transforms were provided. However, one of the most comm...

In this paper, we first briefly review the directional properties of the Dual-Tree complex wavelet transform and we investigate how the directional selectivity of the transform can be increased (i.e., to obtain more than 6 orientations per scale). To this end, we describe a new augmented Lagrangian optimization algorithm to jointly perform the 2D spectral factorization of a set of 2D directiona...

Volumetric data acquisition and increasingly massive data storage have increased the need to develop better analysis tools for three-dimensional data sets. These volumetric data sets can provide information beyond that contained in standard two-dimensional images. Common strategies to deal with such data sets have been based on sequential use of two-dimensional analysis tools. In this work, we ...

The p-adic formulation of replica symmetry breaking is presented. In this approach ultrametricity is a natural consequence of the basic properties of the p-adic numbers. Many properties can be simply derived in this approach and p-adic Fourier transform seems to be an promising tool. Unité Propre du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, associée à l’ Ecole Normale Supérieure et à l’Univ...

Corresponding Author: Thayammal, S. Department of ECE Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering, Chennai-601 301, Tamil Nadu, India Email: [email protected] Abstract: The motivation of the proposed compression method is to reduce the bit rate for image transmission or memory requirement for image storage while maintaining image quality. The edges are one of the prominent features in an image a...