Active blobs: Region-based, deformable appearance models

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 89, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 197-225

  Sclaroff, Stan ^a   Isidoro, John ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Appearance models; Deformable templates; Image registration; Region tracking; Robust estimation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MODAL ANALYSIS; PHOTOMETRY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ACTIVE BLOBS; DEFORMABLE TEMPLATES; DELAUNAY TRIANGULAR MESHING ALGORITHM; GEOMETRIC TRANSFORMATIONS; IMAGE REGISTRATION; REGION-BASED APPROACH; TEXTURE MAPPING;

IMAGE UNDERSTANDING;

EID: 0042529189     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1077-3142(03)00003-1     Document Type: Article

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