Segmentation of vectorial image features using shape gradients and information measures

Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 365-386

  Herbulot, Ariane ^a   Jehan Besson, Stéphanie ^b   Duffner, Stefan ^b,d   Barlaud, Michel ^a   Aubert, Gilles ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^d ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

Active contours; Entropy; Image segmentation; Image statistics; Information; Information theory; Joint probability; Motion segmentation; Shape gradient; Shape optimization

Indexed keywords

CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; ENTROPY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION THEORY; MOTION ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; JOINT PROBABILITY; MOTION SEGMENTATION; SHAPE GRADIENT; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33750924812     PISSN: 09249907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10851-006-6898-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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