An efficient and fast active contour model for salient object detection

Proceedings of the 2009 Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, CRV 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 124-131

  Ksantini, Riadh ^a   Shariat, Farnaz ^a   Boufama, Boubakeur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; ACTIVE CONTOURS; CURVE EVOLUTION; GAUSSIANS; GRADIENT BASED; GRADIENT INFORMATIONS; IMAGE GRADIENTS; LEVEL SET FORMULATIONS; LEVEL SET FUNCTIONS; REINITIALIZATION PROCEDURE; SALIENT OBJECT DETECTION; SALIENT OBJECTS; SIGNED DISTANCE FUNCTION; TEXTURED IMAGES; VARIATIONAL LEVEL SET;

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEVEL MEASUREMENT;

SET THEORY;

EID: 70350548234     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CRV.2009.19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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