A snake model for object tracking in natural sequences

Signal Processing: Image Communication

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 219-238

  Tsechpenakis, G ^a   Rapantzikos, K ^a   Tsapatsoulis, N ^a   Kollias, S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Active contours; Cluttered sequences; Occlusion; Snakes; Tracking

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER VISION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION ESTIMATION; MOTION PICTURES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TRACKING (POSITION); VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; CLUTTERED SEQUENCES; IMAGE SEQUENCES; OCCLUSION; SNAKES; TRACKING;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0842265033     PISSN: 09235965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.image.2003.07.002     Document Type: Article

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