Level set contour extraction method based on support value filter

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 688-696

  Yang, Changcai ^a   Zheng, Sheng ^a,b   Ye, Jin ^a  

^a CHINA THREE GORGES UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Least squares support vector machine (LS SVM); Level set; Object contour extraction; Support value filter

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; EDGE DETECTION; GEODESY; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; RESEARCH AIRCRAFT; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TWO PHASE FLOW; VECTORS; WAVE FILTERS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR METHODS; CONTOUR EXTRACTIONS; CONVERGING SPEEDS; FEATURE IMAGES; GAUSSIAN FILTERS; GRADIENT DESCENT ALGORITHMS; LEAST SQUARES SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE (LS-SVM); LEAST SQUARES SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET METHODS; LEVEL SETS; OBJECT CONTOUR EXTRACTION; OBJECT CONTOURS; ORIGINAL IMAGES; POWERFUL APPROACHES; REAL IMAGES; SALIENT FEATURES; STEP SIZES; SUPPORT VALUE FILTER; SUPPORT VALUES;

LEVEL MEASUREMENT;

EID: 54249095531     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2008.05.016     Document Type: Article

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