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HAL Id: inria-00073161 https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00073161 Submitted on 24 May 2006 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- entific research documents, whether they are pub- lished or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Image Classification Using a Variational Approach Christophe Samson, Laure Blanc-Féraud, Gilles Aubert, Josiane Zerubia To cite this version: Christophe Samson, Laure Blanc-Féraud, Gilles Aubert, Josiane Zerubia. Image Classification Using a Variational Approach. RR-3523, INRIA. 1998. <inria-00073161>
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HAL Id: inria-00073161https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00073161

Submitted on 24 May 2006

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Image Classification Using a Variational ApproachChristophe Samson, Laure Blanc-Féraud, Gilles Aubert, Josiane Zerubia

To cite this version:Christophe Samson, Laure Blanc-Féraud, Gilles Aubert, Josiane Zerubia. Image Classification Usinga Variational Approach. RR-3523, INRIA. 1998. <inria-00073161>

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Image Classification Using a Variational Approach

Christophe Samson — Laure Blanc-Féraud — Gilles Aubert — Josiane Zerubia

N° 3523

Octobre 1998

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