Neural network parametrized level sets for image segmentation
This is an incremental improvement for image segmentation, applying neural networks to an existing level-set method.
The paper tackles image segmentation by using neural networks as parametrized approximations for level-set functions, showing that two-layer networks efficiently approximate polyhedral segments and prove effectiveness for segmentation and classification.
The Chan-Vese functionals have proven to by a first-class method for segmentation and classification. Previously they have been implemented with level-set methods based on a pixel-wise representation of the level-sets. Later parametrized level-set approximations, such as splines, have been studied. In this paper we consider neural networks as parametrized approximations of level-set functions. We show in particular, that parametrized two-layer networks are most efficient to approximate polyhedral segments and classes. We also prove the efficiency for segmentation and classification.