Combining shape prior and statistical features for active contour segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 726-734

  Gastaud, Muriel ^a   Barlaud, Michel ^a   Aubert, Gilles ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Active contour; Face tracking; Segmentation; Shape prior; Shape warping; Statistical features; Video interpolation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DEFORMATION; FACE RECOGNITION; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTEGRATION; INTERPOLATION; PROBABILITY; SEMANTICS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR; SHAPE PRIOR; SHAPE WARPING; STATISTICAL FEATURES; VIDEO INTERPOLATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 2542426671     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2004.826758     Document Type: Article

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