A contour detection method: Initialization and contour model

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 141-148

  Yuen, P C ^a   Feng, G C ^a   Zhou, J P ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Active contour model; Contour detection; Segmentation; Snake

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CONTOUR DETECTION;

COMPUTER VISION;

DETECTION METHOD;

EID: 0033080539     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(98)00117-2     Document Type: Article

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