Combining Geometric Prior and Statistical Features for Active Contour Segmentation
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This article deals with image and video segmentation using active contours. The proposed variational approachs is based on a criterion combining geometric prior and statistical features computed on the inside region of the contours. The geometric prior involves a free form deformation from a reference contour as opposed to a parametric transformation. Differentiation of this geometric prior criterion is provided. Introducing such a free form deformation has proven to be beneficial for interactive image segmentation. A tracking application where the geometric prior results from the segmentation of the previous frame is presented.
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