Context-based energy estimator: Application to object segmentation on the tree of shapes

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1577-1580

  Xu, Yongchao ^a,b   Geraud, Thierry ^a,b   Najman, Laurent ^b  

^a EPITA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LABORATORY LRDE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

Author keywords

Active contours; Image segmentation; Level lines; Ratio cut; Tree of shapes

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; CLASSICAL APPROACH; CLOSED CONTOURS; CLOSED CURVE; CONTEXT-BASED; ENERGY MINIMIZATION; GRAPH CUT; LEVEL LINES; LOCAL MINIMUMS; OBJECT SEGMENTATION; RATIO-CUT; REAL IMAGES; TREE OF SHAPES; TREE STRUCTURES;

ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICS; TREES;

EID: 84875860772     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2012.6467175     Document Type: Conference Paper

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