Geodesics with Unified Tangent-constrained Priors and Curvature Regularization
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| author | Di, Chong Liu, Li Zhang, Jinglin Li, Zhenjiang Chen, Da Cohen, Laurent D. |
| author_facet | Di, Chong Liu, Li Zhang, Jinglin Li, Zhenjiang Chen, Da Cohen, Laurent D. |
| contents | Curvature-penalized geodesic models have proven their effectiveness in image segmentation by computing globally optimal curves. Unfortunately, these models remain susceptible to shortcuts when delineating objects with complex shapes and image intensity distributions, as they lack mechanisms to enforce shape-aware tangent constraints. To address this limitation, we propose a unified geodesic framework that integrates tangent-constrained priors with curvature penalization. The key idea is to formulate tangent admissibility directly within the orientation-lifted space, where path tangents are restricted to spatially varying angular sectors derived from intrinsic shape representatives (ISR) such as skeletons or interior landmarks. This formulation gives rise to a family of tangent-constrained Finslerian metrics, extending the classical curvature-penalized geodesic models while enforcing mandatory tangent constraints. The resulting Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) partial differential equations (PDEs) admit efficient numerical solutions via variants of the fast marching method, preserving the single-pass computational complexity. Experiments on synthetic, natural, and medical images demonstrate that the proposed geodesic framework indeed improves robustness against weak boundaries and topological shortcuts, yielding segmentation results with enhanced shape fidelity compared to existing geodesic models. |
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| spellingShingle | Geodesics with Unified Tangent-constrained Priors and Curvature Regularization Di, Chong Liu, Li Zhang, Jinglin Li, Zhenjiang Chen, Da Cohen, Laurent D. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Curvature-penalized geodesic models have proven their effectiveness in image segmentation by computing globally optimal curves. Unfortunately, these models remain susceptible to shortcuts when delineating objects with complex shapes and image intensity distributions, as they lack mechanisms to enforce shape-aware tangent constraints. To address this limitation, we propose a unified geodesic framework that integrates tangent-constrained priors with curvature penalization. The key idea is to formulate tangent admissibility directly within the orientation-lifted space, where path tangents are restricted to spatially varying angular sectors derived from intrinsic shape representatives (ISR) such as skeletons or interior landmarks. This formulation gives rise to a family of tangent-constrained Finslerian metrics, extending the classical curvature-penalized geodesic models while enforcing mandatory tangent constraints. The resulting Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) partial differential equations (PDEs) admit efficient numerical solutions via variants of the fast marching method, preserving the single-pass computational complexity. Experiments on synthetic, natural, and medical images demonstrate that the proposed geodesic framework indeed improves robustness against weak boundaries and topological shortcuts, yielding segmentation results with enhanced shape fidelity compared to existing geodesic models. |
| title | Geodesics with Unified Tangent-constrained Priors and Curvature Regularization |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00139 |