Diffusion-snakes: Combining statistical shape knowledge and image information in a variational framework

Proceedings - IEEE Workshop on Variational and Level Set Methods in Computer Vision, VLSM 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 137-144

  Cremers, D ^a   Schnorr C ^a   Weickert, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

diffusion; diffusion snake; geodesic active contours; image segmentation; shape recognition; statistical learning; variational methods

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; DIFFUSION; DROP BREAKUP; GEODESY; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL METHODS;

DIFFUSION SNAKES; GEODESIC ACTIVE CONTOUR; SHAPE RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL LEARNING; VARIATIONAL METHODS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84967016941     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLSM.2001.938892     Document Type: Conference Paper

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