Abstract. This paper is framed in the field of statistical face analysis. In particular, the problem of accurate segmentation of prominent features of the face in frontal view ima...
The segmentation of anatomical structures has been traditionally formulated as a perceptual grouping task, and solved through clustering and variational approaches. However, such ...
Bogdan Georgescu, Xiang Sean Zhou, Dorin Comaniciu...
Statistical appearance models are valuable tools in medical image segmentation. Current methods elegantly incorporate global shape and appearance, but can not cope with local appe...
Deformable template models, in which a shape model and its corresponding appearance model are deformed to optimally fit an object in the image, have proven successful in many medic...
We present a novel framework for learning a joint shape and appearance model from a large set of un-labelled training examples in arbitrary positions and orientations. The shape an...