Table of Contents:
  • 1. Edge detection and segmentation
  • 2. Linear and nonlinear multiscale filtering
  • 3. Region and edge growing methods
  • 4. Variational theories of segmentation
  • 5. The piecewise constant Mumford-Shah model: mathematical analysis
  • 6. Hausdorff measure
  • 7. Covering lemmas in a metric space
  • 8. Density properties
  • 9. Tangency properties of regular subsets of R[superscript N]
  • 10. Semicontinuity properties of Hausdorff measure
  • 11. Rectifiable sets
  • 12. Properties of regular and rectifiable sets
  • 13. Properties of the approximating image in the Mumford-Shah model
  • 14. Small oscillation coverings and the excision method
  • 15. Density properties and existence theory for the Mumford-Shah minimizers
  • 16. Further properties of the minimizers: covering the edge set with a single curve
  • Index of segmentation algorithms.