Fast and accurate active contours for object boundary segmentation

IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 473-476

  Chuang, Cheng Hung ^a   Lie, Wen Nung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ITERATIVE METHODS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VECTORS;

GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW (GVF) ALGORITHM; GREEDY SEARCH ALGORITHM; NOISY IMAGES; OBJECT BOUNDARY EXTRACTION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 2342648087     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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