Vector field convolution for image segmentation using snakes

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1637-1640

  Li, Bing ^a   Acton, Scott T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Image processing; Image segmentation; Image shape analysis; Object detection

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; CONSISTENT PERFORMANCE; EXTERNAL FORCE; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; IMAGE PROCESSING APPLICATIONS; IMAGE SHAPE ANALYSIS; NEW DESIGN; NOISE SENSITIVITY; OBJECT DETECTION; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; VECTOR FIELDS;

CONVOLUTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 78649877319     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2006.312619     Document Type: Conference Paper

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