%0 Report %D 2013 %T Minimal partitions and image classification using a gradient-free perimeter approximation %A Samuel Amstutz %A Nicolas Van Goethem %A Antonio André Novotny %K Image classification, deblurring, optimal partitions, perimeter approximation %X In this paper a new mathematically-founded method for the optimal partitioning of domains, with applications to the classification of greyscale and color images, is proposed. Since optimal partition problems are in general ill-posed, some regularization strategy is required. Here we regularize by a non-standard approximation of the total interface length, which does not involve the gradient of approximate characteristic functions, in contrast to the classical Modica-Mortola approximation. Instead, it involves a system of uncoupled linear partial differential equations and nevertheless shows $\Gamma$-convergence properties in appropriate function spaces. This approach leads to an alternating algorithm that ensures a decrease of the objective function at each iteration, and which always provides a partition, even during the iterations. The efficiency of this algorithm is illustrated by various numerical examples. Among them we consider binary and multilabel minimal partition problems including supervised or automatic image classification, inpainting, texture pattern identification and deblurring. %I SISSA %G en %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6976 %1 6964 %2 Mathematics %4 1 %# MAT/05 ANALISI MATEMATICA %$ Submitted by Nicolas Van Goethem (vangoeth@sissa.it) on 2013-06-27T11:35:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Image.pdf: 1182883 bytes, checksum: 9ca6dcd03d7fd901b0d843d0062dfc74 (MD5)