A parallel hardware design for parametric active contour models

IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance - Proceedings of AVSS 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 609-613

  Ahmadi, Ali ^a   Abedin, Md Anwarul ^a   Mattausch, Hans Jürgen ^a   Koide, Tetsushi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODELS; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW (GVF) SNAKES; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; SNAKE ADAPTATION TIME;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); GRADIENT METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MOTION ESTIMATION;

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EID: 33846992672     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AVSS.2005.1577338     Document Type: Conference Paper

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