ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2009
IEEE
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 ...
PAMI
2006
14 years 11 days ago
2006
In this paper we introduce new type of variational segmentation cost functions and associated active contour methods that are based on pairwise similarities or dissimilarities of t...
ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
Active contour methods like snakes, have become a basic tool in computer vision and image analysis over the last years. They have proven to be adequate for the task of finding bou...
ACCV
2006
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2006
Springer
Performing segmentation of narrow, elongated structures with low contrast boundaries is a challenging problem. Boundaries of these structures are difficult to be located when noise...
ICIP
2001
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
2001
IEEE
A common problem in most active contour methods is that the recursive searching scheme can only return a local optimal solution. Furthermore, the internal energy of the snake is n...
CVPR
2005
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
Image segmentation is defined as partitioning an image into non-overlapping regions based on the intensity or texture. The active contour methods provide an effective way for segm...