The Perona--Malik Paradox

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The Perona--Malik equation is a formally ill-posed parabolic equation for which simple discretizations are nevertheless numerically found to be stable. After discussing the background of this paradox in computer vision, this paper shows the nonexistence of weak solutions even in those cases where computations are successful, and introduces a notion of generalized solutions for this equation, which do evolve smoothly and possess many of the features of numerical calculations.