Global and Local Active Contours for Head Boundary Extraction

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 43-54

  Gunn, Steve R ^a   Nixon, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active contours; Dynamic programming; Energy minimisation; Head boundary extraction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; CYBERNETICS; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; GLOBAL CONTOURS; HEAD BOUNDARY EXTRACTION; ENERGY MINIMIZATION; PARAMETRIZATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032181485     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008065429466     Document Type: Article

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