Locating object contours in complex background using improved snakes

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 93-98

  Shih, Frank Y ^a   Zhang, Kai ^a  

^a New Jersey Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contour model; Edge detection; Image segmentation; Snake

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GRAVITATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; CONCAVE OBJECTS; OBJECT CONTOURS; SNAKE MODEL;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33846493052     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2006.08.007     Document Type: Article

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