New possibilities with Sobolev active contours

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 113-129

  Sundaramoorthi, Ganesh ^a   Yezzi, Anthony ^a   Mennucci, Andrea C ^b   Sapiro, Guillermo ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contours; Global flows; Gradient flows; Ill posed flows; Shape optimization; Shape priors; Sobolev norm

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; GLOBAL FLOWS; GRADIENT FLOWS; ILL-POSED FLOWS; SHAPE PRIORS; SOBOLEV NORM;

COMPUTER VISION; METRIC SYSTEM; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

SHAPE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 67349175020     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: 15731405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11263-008-0133-9     Document Type: Article

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