This report will consider one recent method of solving the image segmentation problem,
namely, the Active Contour Without Edges method. This method utilizes the level set
techniq...
Active contours are adapted to image segmentation by energy minimization. The energies often exhibit local minima, requiring regularization. Such an a priori can be expressed as a...
Eric Debreuve, Michel Barlaud, Jean-Paul Marmorat,...
Handwritten document images contain textlines with multi orientations, touching and overlapping characters within consecutive textlines, and small inter-line spacing making textli...
Syed Saqib Bukhari, Faisal Shafait, Thomas M. Breu...
Segmentation of ancient documents is challenging. In the worst cases, text characters become fragmented as the results of strong degradation processes. New active contour methods ...