A variational method for the recovery of smooth boundaries

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 705-712

  March, Riccardo ^a   Dozio, Marziano ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Active contour models; Discontinuity detection; Image segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001642385     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0262-8856(97)00002-4     Document Type: Article

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