In this paper, we present a novel active contour model, in which the traditional gradient descent optimization is replaced by graph cut optimization. The basic idea is to first de...
Hang Chang, Qing Yang, Manfred Auer, Bahram Parvin
Active contour formulations predominate current minimization of the Mumford-Shah functional (MSF) for image segmentation and filtering. Unfortunately, these formulations necessitat...
This paper describes recent work on the use of regional data extracted from segmented images for use as search keys in an image database query system. The motivation for this work...
Matthew E. J. Wood, Neill W. Campbell, Barry T. Th...
Illusorycontours,suchastheclassicalKanizsatriangleandsquare[9],areintrinsicphenomenainhuman vision. These contours are not completely defined by real object boundaries, but also i...
The ability to determine the identity of a skull found at a crime scene is of critical importance to the law enforcement community. Traditional clay-based methods attempt to recon...
Carl Adrian, Nils Krahnstoever, Peter H. Tu, Phil ...