Snakes, Shapes, and Gradient Vector Flow

@article{citeulike:1463078, abstract = {Snakes, or active contours, are used extensively in computer vision and image processing applications, particularly to locate object boundaries. Problems associated with initialization and poor convergence to boundary concavities, however, have limited their utility. This paper presents a new external force for active contours, largely solving both problems. This external force, which we call gradient vector flow (GVF), is computed as a diffusion of the gradient vectors of a gray-level or...}, author = {Xu, C. and Prince, J. L. }, citeulike-article-id = {1463078}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Image Processing}, keywords = {image-analysis, segmentation, snakes}, number = {3}, pages = {359--369}, posted-at = {2007-11-14 07:17:12}, priority = {2}, title = {Snakes, Shapes, and Gradient Vector Flow}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/311734.html}, volume = {7}, year = {1998} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1463078 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1463078 TI - Snakes, Shapes, and Gradient Vector Flow JF - IEEE Transactions on Image Processing VL - 7 IS - 3 SP - 359 EP - 369 N2 - Snakes, or active contours, are used extensively in computer vision and image processing applications, particularly to locate object boundaries. Problems associated with initialization and poor convergence to boundary concavities, however, have limited their utility. This paper presents a new external force for active contours, largely solving both problems. This external force, which we call gradient vector flow (GVF), is computed as a diffusion of the gradient vectors of a gray-level or... KW - image-analysis KW - segmentation KW - snakes AU - Xu, C AU - Prince, JL PY - 1998/// UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/311734.html ER -