NURBS snakes

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 551-562

  Meegama, Ravinda G N ^a   Rajapakse, Jagath C ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Active contours; Boundary extraction; Energy minimisation; Non Uniform Rational B Spline; Snakes

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CURVE FITTING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BOUNDARY EXTRACTION;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0037844973     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0262-8856(03)00066-0     Document Type: Article

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