Directional geodesic active contour for image segmentation

Guopu Zhu; Shuqun Zhang; Qingshuang Zeng; Changhong Wang

doi:10.1117/1.2753836

1 July 2007 Directional geodesic active contour for image segmentation

Guopu Zhu, Shuqun Zhang, Qingshuang Zeng, Changhong Wang

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Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 16, Issue 3, 030501 (July 2007). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2753836

Abstract

By incorporating the image gradient directional information into the geodesic active contour model, we propose a novel active contour model called directional geodesic active contour, which has the advantage of selectively detecting the image edges with different gradient directions. The experiment results show the high performance of the proposed active contour in image segmentation, especially when multiple edges with different gradient directions are present near the object boundary to confuse the active contour.

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Guopu Zhu, Shuqun Zhang, Qingshuang Zeng, and Changhong Wang "Directional geodesic active contour for image segmentation," Journal of Electronic Imaging 16(3), 030501 (1 July 2007). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2753836

Published: 1 July 2007

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