Generalized gradient vector flow external forces for active contours
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Generalized gradient vector flow external forces for active contours
Active contours, or snakes, are used extensively in computer vision and image processing applications, particularly to locate object boundaries. A new type of external force for active contours, called gradient vector flow (GVF) was introduced recently to address problems associated with initialization and poor convergence to boundary concavities. GVF is computed as a diffusion of the gradient ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Signal Processing
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0165-1684
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1684(98)00140-6