Swarm contours: A fast self-organization approach for snake initialization

Complexity

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-52

  Mobahi, Hossein ^a,b,c   Ahmadabadi, Majid Nili ^a,b   Araabi, Babak Nadjar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contours; Image processing; Self organization; Swarm intelligence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750888870     PISSN: 10762787     EISSN: 10990526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cplx.20147     Document Type: Article

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