Accelerating active contour algorithms with the Gradient Diffusion Field

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kiser, Chris ^a,b   Musial, Chris ^b   Sen, Pradeep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ACTIVE CONTOUR ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION TIME; CONCAVE STRUCTURES; DIFFUSION FIELDS; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; REAL-TIME HARDWARE; REALTIME PROCESSING; USEFUL PROPERTIES;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 77957953791     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icpr.2008.4761589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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