Abstract
A variational formulation for piecewise smooth approximation of functions which smooths out small discontinuities while retaining larger ones is analyzed. An elliptic approximation of the formulation is developed for practical applications to the segmentation problem in computer vision.
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This research was partially supported under ARO Grant, No. DAAL03-91-G-0041.