Segmentation of edge preserving gradient vector flow: An approach toward automatically initializing and splitting of snakes

Proceedings - 2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2005

Volumn I, Issue , 2005, Pages 162-167

  Li, Chunming ^a   Liu, Jundong ^b   Fox, Martin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Ohio University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; GRAPH THEORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

CONTOUR MODELS; EDGE PRESERVING GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW (EPGVF); PIXEL; SNAKE INITIALIZATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 24644441287     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2005.314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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