Image segmentation based on the Poincaré map method

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 946-957

  Zeng, Delu ^a   Zhou, Zhiheng ^a   Xie, Shengli ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Active contour; dynamical system; external force field; limit cycle; Newton Raphson algorithm; Poincar map method; segmentation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; EXTERNAL FORCE FIELD; LIMIT CYCLE; NEWTON-RAPHSON ALGORITHM; POINCARE;

DELTA SIGMA MODULATION; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84863137911     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2168408     Document Type: Article

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