New normalized nonlocal hybrid level set method for image segmentation

This article introduces a new normalized nonlocal hybrid level set method for image segmentation.Due to intensity overlapping,blurred edges with complex backgrounds,simple intensity and texture information,such kind of image segmentation is still a challenging task.The proposed method uses both the region and boundary information to achieve accurate segmentation results.The region information can help to identify rough region of interest and prevent the boundary leakage problem.It makes use of normalized nonlocal comparisons between pairs of patches in each region,and a heuristic intensity model is proposed to suppress irrelevant strong edges and constrain the segmentation.The boundary information can help to detect the precise location of the target object,it makes use of the geodesic active contour model to obtain the target boundary.The corresponding variational segmentation problem is implemented by a level set formulation.We use an internal energy term for geometric active contours to penalize the deviation of the level set function from a signed distance function.At last,experimental results on synthetic images and real images are shown in the paper with promising results.

A Nonlocal Operator Method for Partial Differential Equations with Application to Electromagnetic Waveguide Problem

A novel nonlocal operator theory based on the variational principle is proposed for the solution of partial differential equations.Common differential operators as well as the variational forms are defined within the context of nonlocal operators.The present nonlocal formulation allows the assembling of the tangent stiffness matrix with ease and simplicity,which is necessary for the eigenvalue analysis such as the waveguide problem.The present formulation is applied to solve the differential electromagnetic vector wave equations based on electric fields.The governing equations are converted into nonlocal integral form.An hourglass energy functional is introduced for the elimination of zeroenergy modes.Finally,the proposed method is validated by testing three classical benchmark problems.

Variational analysis of thermomechanically coupled steady-state rolling problem

A steady-state, rigid-plastic rolling problem for temperature and strain-rate dependent materials with nonlocal friction is considered. A variational formulation is derived, coupling a nonlinear variational inequality for the velocity and a nonlinear vari- ational equation for the temperature. The existence and uniqueness results are obtained by a proposed fixed point method.

An adaptive image sparse reconstruction method combined with nonlocal similarity and cosparsity for mixed Gaussian-Poisson noise removal

Compressed sensing(CS) has achieved great success in single noise removal. However, it cannot restore the images contaminated with mixed noise efficiently. This paper introduces nonlocal similarity and cosparsity inspired by compressed sensing to overcome the difficulties in mixed noise removal, in which nonlocal similarity explores the signal sparsity from similar patches, and cosparsity assumes that the signal is sparse after a possibly redundant transform. Meanwhile, an adaptive scheme is designed to keep the balance between mixed noise removal and detail preservation based on local variance. Finally, IRLSM and RACoSaMP are adopted to solve the objective function. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method is superior to conventional CS methods, like K-SVD and state-of-art method nonlocally centralized sparse representation(NCSR), in terms of both visual results and quantitative measures.

CTE Solvability, Nonlocal Symmetry and Explicit Solutions of Modified Boussinesq System

A consistent tanh expansion(CTE) method is used to study the modified Boussinesq equation. It i proved that the modified Boussinesq equation is CTE solvable. The soliton-cnoidal periodic wave is explicitly given by a nonanto-BT theorem. Furthermore, the nonlocal symmetry for the modified Boussinesq equation is obtained by th Painlev′e analysis. The nonlocal symmetry is localized to the Lie point symmetry by introducing one auxiliary dependen variable. The finite symmetry transformation related with the nonlocal symemtry is obtained by solving the initia value problem of the prolonged systems. Thanks to the localization process, many interaction solutions among soliton and other complicated waves are computed through similarity reductions. Some special concrete soliton-cnoidal wav interaction behaviors are studied both in analytical and graphical ways.