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Main Authors: Solano, Daniel, Younes, Laurent, Darbon, Jerome
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16281
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author Solano, Daniel
Younes, Laurent
Darbon, Jerome
author_facet Solano, Daniel
Younes, Laurent
Darbon, Jerome
contents This paper demonstrates the impact of a phase field method on shape registration to align shapes of possibly different topology. It yields new insights into the building of discrepancy measures between shapes regardless of topology, which would have applications in fields of image data analysis such as computational anatomy. A soft end-point optimal control problem is introduced whose minimum measures the minimal control norm required to align an initial shape to a final shape, up to a small error term. The initial data is spatially integrable, the paths in control spaces are integrable and the evolution equation is a generalized convective Allen-Cahn. Binary images are used to represent shapes for the initial data. Inspired by level-set methods and large diffeomorphic deformation metric mapping, the controls spaces are integrable scalar functions to serve as a normal velocity and smooth reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces to serve as velocity vector fields. The existence of mild solutions to the evolution equation is proved, the minimums of the time discretized optimal control problem are characterized, and numerical simulations of minimums to the fully discretized optimal control problem are displayed. The numerical implementation enforces the maximum-bounded principle, although it is not proved for these mild solutions. This research offers a novel discrepancy measure that provides valuable ways to analyze diverse image data sets. Future work involves proving the existence of minimums, existence and uniqueness of strong solutions and the maximum bounded principle.
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spellingShingle Shape Alignment via Allen-Cahn Nonlinear-Convection
Solano, Daniel
Younes, Laurent
Darbon, Jerome
Optimization and Control
This paper demonstrates the impact of a phase field method on shape registration to align shapes of possibly different topology. It yields new insights into the building of discrepancy measures between shapes regardless of topology, which would have applications in fields of image data analysis such as computational anatomy. A soft end-point optimal control problem is introduced whose minimum measures the minimal control norm required to align an initial shape to a final shape, up to a small error term. The initial data is spatially integrable, the paths in control spaces are integrable and the evolution equation is a generalized convective Allen-Cahn. Binary images are used to represent shapes for the initial data. Inspired by level-set methods and large diffeomorphic deformation metric mapping, the controls spaces are integrable scalar functions to serve as a normal velocity and smooth reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces to serve as velocity vector fields. The existence of mild solutions to the evolution equation is proved, the minimums of the time discretized optimal control problem are characterized, and numerical simulations of minimums to the fully discretized optimal control problem are displayed. The numerical implementation enforces the maximum-bounded principle, although it is not proved for these mild solutions. This research offers a novel discrepancy measure that provides valuable ways to analyze diverse image data sets. Future work involves proving the existence of minimums, existence and uniqueness of strong solutions and the maximum bounded principle.
title Shape Alignment via Allen-Cahn Nonlinear-Convection
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16281