We combine a pen and pressure-sensitive tablet input device, and a sketch-based user initialization process, with a general subdivisioncurve Snake to create an intuitive, fast, ac...
E cient and powerful topologically adaptable deformable surfaces can be created by embedding and de ning discrete deformable surface models in terms of an A ne Cell Decomposition (...
A key step in the process of lip-reading is determining the shape of the speaker’s lips. This has previously been achieved through an energy method known as “snakes”, howeve...
Since the upturn of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) as an imaging technique for the coronary artery system, much research has been done to simplify the complicated analysis of the ...
Ellen J. L. Brunenberg, Oriol Pujol, Bart M. ter H...
Active contours or snakes have been extensively utilized in handling image segmentation and classification problems. In traditional active contour models, snake initialization is ...