Tracking nonparameterized object contours in video

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1081-1091

  Nguyen, Hieu Tat ^a   Worring, Marcel ^a   Van Den Boomgaard, Rein ^a   Smeulders, Arnold W M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contour tracking; Motion analysis; Watershed algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MOTION COMPENSATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VIDEO CAMERAS;

CONTOUR TRACKING; MOTION ANALYSIS; WATERSHED ALGORITHM;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 0036709258     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2002.802522     Document Type: Article

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