An unbiased active contour algorithm for object tracking

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 5-6, 1998, Pages 491-498

  Lam, Chun Leung ^a   Yuen, Shiu Yin ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Active contour; Bias of shape; Complex background; Greedy algorithm; Non rigid motion; Object tracking; Snake; Snaxel

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR ALGORITHMS; OBJECT TRACKING;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032044912     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(98)00015-4     Document Type: Article

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