The M-components of level sets of continuous functions in WBV

We prove that the topographic map structure ofupper semicontinuous functions, defined in terms of classical connected components ofits level sets, and offunctions ofbounded variation (or a generalization, the WBV functions), defined in terms of M-connected components ofits level sets, coincides when...

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Autores: Ballester, Coloma, Caselles, Vicente
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2001
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/46948
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/46948
http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/PUBLMAT_45201_10
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Mathematical morphology
Level sets
Connected components
Morse theory
Functions of bounded variation
Sets of finite perimeter
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Sumario:We prove that the topographic map structure ofupper semicontinuous functions, defined in terms of classical connected components ofits level sets, and offunctions ofbounded variation (or a generalization, the WBV functions), defined in terms of M-connected components ofits level sets, coincides when the function is a continuous function in WBV . Both function spaces are frequently used as models for images. Thus, if the domain Ω ofthe image is Jordan domain, a rectangle, for instance, and the image u ∈ C(Ω)∩WBV (Ω) (being constant near ∂Ω), we prove that for almost all levels λ of u, the classical connected components ofpositive measure of[u ≥ λ] coincide with the M-components of[u ≥ λ]. Thus the notion of M-component can be seen as a relaxation ofthe classical notion ofconnected component when going from C(Ω) to WBV (Ω).