Effective tracking through tree-search

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 604-615

  Freedman, Daniel ^a  

^a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximation algorithm; Compact manifold; Contour tracking; Hybrid optimization; Tree search

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; PATTERN MATCHING; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

CONTOUR TRACKING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0037619228     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2003.1195994     Document Type: Article

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