Making Snakes Converge from Minimal Initialization
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چکیده
I n this paper, we present a new snake-based method to delineate contours where the m e r has to specify only the two distant end points without having to supply an almost complete polygonal approximation. W e achieve much better convergence properties than those of traditional snakes by propagating the image information along the curve from both end points towards its center. W e use our new method to outline curved object boundaries and fo r interactive road delineation.
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