In this paper,a fast algorithm for Euler’s elastica functional is proposed,in which the Euler’s elastica functional is reformulated as a constrained minimization problem.Combining the augmented Lagrangian method and...In this paper,a fast algorithm for Euler’s elastica functional is proposed,in which the Euler’s elastica functional is reformulated as a constrained minimization problem.Combining the augmented Lagrangian method and operator splitting techniques,the resulting saddle-point problem is solved by a serial of subproblems.To tackle the nonlinear constraints arising in the model,a novel fixed-point-based approach is proposed so that all the subproblems either is a linear problem or has a closed-form solution.We show the good performance of our approach in terms of speed and reliability using numerous numerical examples on synthetic,real-world and medical images for image denoising,image inpainting and image zooming problems.展开更多
文摘In this paper,a fast algorithm for Euler’s elastica functional is proposed,in which the Euler’s elastica functional is reformulated as a constrained minimization problem.Combining the augmented Lagrangian method and operator splitting techniques,the resulting saddle-point problem is solved by a serial of subproblems.To tackle the nonlinear constraints arising in the model,a novel fixed-point-based approach is proposed so that all the subproblems either is a linear problem or has a closed-form solution.We show the good performance of our approach in terms of speed and reliability using numerous numerical examples on synthetic,real-world and medical images for image denoising,image inpainting and image zooming problems.