function [u,v] = GVF(f, mu, ITER) %GVF Compute gradient vector flow. % [u,v] = GVF(f, mu, ITER) computes the % GVF of an edge map f. mu is the GVF regularization coefficient % and ITER is the number of iterations that will be computed. % Chenyang Xu and Jerry L. Prince 6/17/97 % Copyright (c) 1996-99 by Chenyang Xu and Jerry L. Prince % Image Analysis and Communications Lab, Johns Hopkins University % modified on 9/9/99 by Chenyang Xu % MATLAB do not implement the boundary condition for gradient and del2 % consistently between MATLAB 4.2 and MATLAB 5. Hence I modify % the function to take care of this issue by the code itself. % Also, in the previous version, the input "f" is assumed to have been % normalized to the range [0,1] before the function is called. % In this version, "f" is normalized inside the function to avoid % potential error of inputing an unnormalized "f". [m,n] = size(f); fmin = min(f(:)); fmax = max(f(:)); f = (f-fmin)/(fmax-fmin); % Normalize f to the range [0,1] f = BoundMirrorExpand(f); % Take care of boundary condition [fx,fy] = gradient(f); % Calculate the gradient of the edge map u = fx; v = fy; % Initialize GVF to the gradient SqrMagf = fx.*fx + fy.*fy; % Squared magnitude of the gradient field % Iteratively solve for the GVF u,v for i=1:ITER, u = BoundMirrorEnsure(u); v = BoundMirrorEnsure(v); u = u + mu*4*del2(u) - SqrMagf.*(u-fx); v = v + mu*4*del2(v) - SqrMagf.*(v-fy); fprintf(1, '%3d', i); if (rem(i,20) == 0) fprintf(1, '\n'); end end fprintf(1, '\n'); u = BoundMirrorShrink(u); v = BoundMirrorShrink(v);