Table of contents : Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Edge Detection and Segmentation....Pages 3-7 Linear and Nonlinear Multiscale Filtering....Pages 8-20 Region and Edge Growing....Pages 21-34 Variational Theories of Segmentation....Pages 35-45 The Piecewise Constant Mumford and Shah Model: Mathematical Analysis....Pages 46-62 Front Matter....Pages 63-63 Hausdorff Measure....Pages 65-78 Covering Lemmas in a Metric Space....Pages 79-85 Density Properties....Pages 86-93 Tangency Properties of Regular Subsets of ℝ N ....Pages 94-117 Semicontinuity Properties of the Hausdorff Measure....Pages 118-126 Rectifiable Sets....Pages 127-135 Properties of Regular and Rectifiable Sets....Pages 136-147 Front Matter....Pages 149-149 Properties of the Approximating Image in the Mumford-Shah Model....Pages 151-164 Small Oscillation Coverings and the Excision Method....Pages 165-181 Density Properties and Existence Theory for the Mumford-Shah Minimizers....Pages 182-198 Further Properties of Minimizers: Covering the Edge Set with a Single Curve....Pages 199-208 Back Matter....Pages 209-248