A comparison between feature-based and EM-based contour tracking

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1218-1232

  Pece, Arthur E C ^a,b   Worrall, Anthony D ^c  

^a Heimdall Vision   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active contour; EM algorithm; Empirical information matrix; Generative model; Kalman filter

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KALMAN FILTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

ACTIVE CONTOUR; EM ALGORITHMS; EMPIRICAL INFORMATION MATRIX; GENERATIVE MODEL;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 33749248997     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2005.06.013     Document Type: Article

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