Harris function based active contour external force for image segmentation

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1180-1187

  Kovacs, Andrea ^a,b   Sziranyi, Tamas ^b  

^a PÁZMÁNY PÉTER CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE AND CONTROL   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Boundary extraction; Gradient vector flow; Harris corner detection; Vector field convolution

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; BOUNDARY EXTRACTION; CLASSICAL APPROACH; CONVEX HULL; EXTERNAL FORCE; FEATURE MAP; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; HARRIS CORNER DETECTION; HARRIS MATRIX; NON-PARAMETRIC; OBJECT BOUNDARIES; PARAMETRIC SNAKES; REDUCED SENSITIVITY; VECTOR FIELDS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84859305512     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2012.01.018     Document Type: Article

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