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Euler equations for Blake and Zisserman functional

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We derive many necessary conditions for minimizers of a functional depending on free discontinuities, free gradient discontinuities and second derivatives, which is related to image segmentation.

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica “Ennio De Giorgi”, Università del Salento, Via Arnesano, 73100, Lecce, Italia

    Michele Carriero & Antonio Leaci

  2. Dipartimento di Matematica “Francesco Brioschi”, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Franco Tomarelli

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Carriero, M., Leaci, A. & Tomarelli, F. Euler equations for Blake and Zisserman functional. Calc. Var. 32, 81–110 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-007-0129-2

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