A variational formulation for segmenting desired objects in color images

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1414-1421

  Pi, Ling ^a   Shen, Chaomin ^b   Li, Fang ^b,c   Fan, Jinsong ^b,d  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d WENZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Active contours; Chan Vese model; Desired objects; Discrimination function

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; CHAN VESE MODELS; DISCRIMINATION FUNCTIONS; EVOLUTION EQUATIONS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 34250193641     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2006.12.013     Document Type: Article

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