A wavelet-frame based image force model for active contouring algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1983-1988

  Wu, Hsien Hsun ^a   Liu, Jyh Charn ^b   Chui, Charles ^c  

^a Cytokinetics Inc   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TeraLogic Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; EDGE DETECTION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTIMIZATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ACTIVE CONTOURING ALGORITHMS; DIRECTIONAL IMAGE FORCE; IMAGE OBJECT EXTRACTION; SNAKE ALGORITHMS; ZERO CROSSING STRENGTH;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034318517     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.877221     Document Type: Article

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