TY - GEN
T1 - Free boundary conditions active contours with applications for vision
AU - Shemesh, Michal
AU - Ben-Shahar, Ohad
PY - 2011/10/5
Y1 - 2011/10/5
N2 - Active contours are used extensively in vision for more than two decades, primarily for applications such as image segmentation and object detection. The vast majority of active contours models make use of closed curves and the few that employ open curves rely on either fixed boundary conditions or no boundary conditions at all. In this paper we discuss a new class of open active contours with free boundary conditions, in which the end points of the open active curve are restricted to lie on two parametric boundary curves. We discuss how this class of curves may assist and facilitate various vision applications and we demonstrate its utility in applications such as boundary detection, feature tracking, and seam carving.
AB - Active contours are used extensively in vision for more than two decades, primarily for applications such as image segmentation and object detection. The vast majority of active contours models make use of closed curves and the few that employ open curves rely on either fixed boundary conditions or no boundary conditions at all. In this paper we discuss a new class of open active contours with free boundary conditions, in which the end points of the open active curve are restricted to lie on two parametric boundary curves. We discuss how this class of curves may assist and facilitate various vision applications and we demonstrate its utility in applications such as boundary detection, feature tracking, and seam carving.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80053378640&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24028-7_17
DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24028-7_17
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783642240270
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 180
EP - 191
BT - Advances in Visual Computing - 7th International Symposium, ISVC 2011, Proceedings
T2 - 7th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2011
Y2 - 26 September 2011 through 28 September 2011
ER -