A higher-order active contour model of a 'gas of circles' and its application to tree crown extraction

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 699-709

  Horvath P ^a,b   Jermyn, I H ^a   Kato, Z ^b   Zerubia, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Active contour; Aerial image; Crown; Extraction; Gas of circles; Higher order; Prior; Shape; Tree

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING;

ACTIVE CONTOUR; AERIAL IMAGE; CROWN; HIGHER-ORDER; PRIOR; SHAPE; TREE;

GASES;

EID: 58249086355     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.09.008     Document Type: Article

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