Geodesic active regions and level set methods for motion estimation and tracking

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 259-282

  Paragios, Nikos ^a   Deriche, Rachid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Background subtraction; Constant brightness constraint; Implicit representations; Level set method; Optical flow; Robust estimators, Affine motion; Tracking

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CORRELATION METHODS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FLOWS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SET THEORY; TRACKING (POSITION);

AFFINE MOTION; BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION; CONSTANT BRIGHTNESS CONSTRAINT; IMPLICIT REPRESENTATIONS; LEVEL SET METHOD; ROBUST ESTIMATORS;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 9644294262     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2003.04.001     Document Type: Article

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