Formation of step images during anisotropic diffusion

This paper analyzes the behavior of the one-dimensional discretized anisotropic diffusion in order to explain the manner in which false step edges are created. The creation of these edges are related to the characteristics of the local convexity of the image intensity function. An approach is proposed to prevent the appearance of false edges.

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