Smoothing B-spline active contour for fast and robust image and video segmentation

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 137-140

  Precioso, F ^a   Barland, M ^a   Blu, T ^b   Unser, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTERPOLATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; VIDEO SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0345529024     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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