Regularized Coherence Enhancing Filtering

The paper deals with the nonlinear tensor diffusion which yields a coherence improvement. It is very appropriate for images with flow-like structures. Two convolutions are used in the construction of diffusion tensor for such a model, see [Drblíková, O.—Mikula, K.: Convergence analysis of finite volume scheme for nonlinear tensor anisotropic diffusion in image processing, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 46 (2007), 37–60], [Weickert, J.: Coherence-enhancing diffusion filtering, Int. J. Comput. Vis. 31 (1999), 111–127]. In this paper we introduce the third supplemental convolution in order to enhance the diffusion strategy.

First, we briefly present the classical coherence enhancing model and explain our modification. Then the discrete scheme is provided. The core of the paper consists in numerical experiments. Benefits of the additional convolution are discussed and illustrated in the figures.