A Multigrid Approach
for
Fast Geodesic Active Contours

Avraham Kenigsberg
Department of Computer Science
Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel

Image segmentation is a basic and important problem in the field of computer vision. A recent geometric approach for image segmentation is the geodesic active contour based on the level-set method. One drawback of the method, is the extended numerical support that makes its solution time consuming. We propose to solve an implicit system of the geodesic active contour model using the computationally efficient multigrid method.


This work is a part of the M.Sc. thesis research of the author, under the supervision of Dr. Ron Kimmel and Assoc. Prof. Irad Yavneh.