Directional gradient vector flow for snakes

Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 318-321

  Cheng, Jierong ^a   Foo, Say Wei ^a   Krishnan, Shankar M ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Gradient vector flow; Image gradient; Segmentation; Snakes

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EDGE DETECTION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

DIRECTIONAL GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW (DGVF); IMAGE GRADIENT; SNAKES; STATIC FORCES;

VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

EID: 21544447005     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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