Note on the Existence of Minimizers for Variational Geometric Active Contours

Abstract

We propose here a proof of existence of a minimizer of a segmentation functional based on a priori information on target shapes, and formulated with level sets. The existence of a minimizer is very important, because it guarantees the convergence of any numerical methods (either gradient descents techniques and variants, or PDE resolutions) used to solve the segmentation model. This work can also be used in many other segmentation models to prove the existence of a minimizer.