Flux tensor constrained geodesic active contours with sensor fusion for persistent object tracking

Journal of Multimedia

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 20-33

  Bunyak, Filiz ^a   Palaniappan, Kannappan ^a   Nath, Sumit Kumar ^a   Seetharaman, Gunasekaran ^b  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b Air Force Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contours; Flux tensor; Infrared images; Level set; Object tracking; Sensor fusion

Indexed keywords

GEODESY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFRARED IMAGING; MOTION ANALYSIS; OBJECT DETECTION; TENSORS;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; GEODESIC ACTIVE CONTOUR; LEVEL SET; MULTIPLE OBJECT TRACKING; OBJECT TRACKING; OBJECT TRACKING ALGORITHM; SENSOR FUSION;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 57049089083     PISSN: 17962048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4304/jmm.2.4.20-33     Document Type: Article

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