Active contour segmentation by use of a multichannel incoherent optical correlator

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 4681-4687

  Hueber, Eric ^a   Bigué, Laurent ^a   Ambs, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE HAUTE ALSACE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

MULTICHANNEL PROCESSORS;

CORRELATORS;

EID: 0042363615     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.004681     Document Type: Article

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