Active contours were proposed by Kass et al. as a way to represent the contours of an image. Although the method is simple, one of its shortcomings is its inability to converge in...
Recently, the Sobolev metric was introduced to define gradient flows of various geometric active contour energies. It was shown that the Sobolev metric out-performs the tradition...
Ganesh Sundaramoorthi, Anthony J. Yezzi, Andrea Me...
Most variational active contour models are designed to find the “desirable” local minima of data-dependent energy functionals with the hope of avoiding undesirable configurat...
Edge-based and region-based active contours are frequently used in image segmentation. While edges characterize small neighborhoods of pixels, region descriptors characterize entir...
Cristina Darolti, Alfred Mertins, Christoph Bodens...
We present an approach for unsupervised segmentation of natural and textural images based on active contour, differential geometry and information theoretical concept. More precis...