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
Shock graphs have emerged as a powerful generic 2-D shape representation. However, most approaches typically assume that the silhouette has been correctly segmented. In this paper,...
The paper focusses on a group of segmentation problems dealing with 3D data sets showing thin objects that appear disconnected in the data due to partial volume effects or a large...
–The OBSERVER is a video surveillance system that detects and predicts abnormal behaviors aiming at the intelligent surveillance concept. The system acquires color images from a ...
This study presents a content-based image retrieval system IMALBUM based on local region of interest called object of interest (OOI). Each segmented or user-selected OOI is indexe...