Decoupled active contour (DAC) for boundary detection

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 310-324

  Mishra, Akshaya K ^a   Fieguth, Paul W ^a   Clausi, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

active contour; deformable model; importance sampling; Snake; statistical data fusion.; Viterbi algorithm

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; DEFORMABLE MODELS; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; SNAKE; STATISTICAL DATA FUSION; VITERBI;

COMPUTER VISION; DATA FUSION; DEFORMATION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION FUSION; SAMPLING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

VITERBI ALGORITHM;

EID: 78650510390     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2010.83     Document Type: Article

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