On modelling, extraction, detection and classification of deformable contours from noisy images

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-62

  Lai, Kok F ^a   Chin, Roland T ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Deformable model; Image processing; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; MARKOV PROCESSES; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

DEFORMABLE CONTOURS;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 0031680973     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0262-8856(97)00043-7     Document Type: Article

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