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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Abstract and Applied Analysis Volume 2007, Article ID 45153, 14 pages doi:10.1155/2007/45153 Research Article L1TV Computes the Flat Norm for Boundaries Simon P. Morgan and Kevin R. Vixie Received 14 January 2007; Accepted 22 May 2007 Recommended by Samuel Shen We show that the recently introduced L1TV functional can be used to explicitly compute the flat norm for codimension one boundaries. Furthermore, using L1TV, we also obtain the flat norm decomposition. Conversely, using the flat norm as the precise generalization of L1TV functional, we obtain a method for denoising nonboundary or higher codimen- sion sets. The flat norm decomposition of differences can made to depend on scale using the flat norm with scale which we define in direct analogy to the L1TV functional. We illustrate the results and implications with examples and figures. Copyright © 2007 S. P. Morgan and K. R. Vixie. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, dis- tribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction In this research announcement, we point out that the L1TV functional, introduced and studied in the continuous setting in [1–4] and earlier in the discrete setting in [5, 6], pro- vides a convenient way of computing both the value of, and the optimal decomposition required by, the flat norm from geometric measure theory. The L1TV functional was introduced as an improvement to the now-classic Rudin- Osher-Fatemi total variation-based denoising [7]. Among its many nice properties is the way it handles binary images, making it useful for shape processing. Theoretically speak- ing, the clean geometric structure of the functional and its minimizers is very attractive (see [2, 3] for details). ` Joan Glaunes was, as far as we know, the first to suggest and use the flat norm from geome