Active contour with a tangential component

DOI10.1007/S10851-014-0519-YzbMATH Open1343.94016DBLPjournals/jmiv/WangC15arXiv1204.6458OpenAlexW2061379747WikidataQ56673079 ScholiaQ56673079MaRDI QIDQ890035FDOQ890035

Authors: Junyan Wang, Kap Luk Chan 

Publication date: 9 November 2015

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Conventional edge-based active contours often require the normal component of an edge indicator function on the optimal contours to approximate zero, while the tangential component can still be significant. In real images, the full gradients of the edge indicator function along the object boundaries are often small. Hence, the curve evolution of edge-based active contours can terminate early before converging to the object boundaries with a careless contour initialization. We propose a novel Geodesic Snakes (GeoSnakes) active contour that requires the full gradients of the edge indicator to vanish at the optimal solution. Besides, the conventional curve evolution approach for minimizing active contour energy cannot fully solve the Euler-Lagrange (EL) equation of our GeoSnakes active contour, causing a Pseudo Stationary Phenomenon (PSP). To address the PSP problem, we propose an auxiliary curve evolution equation, named the equilibrium flow (EF) equation. Based on the EF and the conventional curve evolution, we obtain a solution to the full EL equation of GeoSnakes active contour. Experimental results validate the proposed geometrical interpretation of the early termination problem, and they also show that the proposed method overcomes the problem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.6458

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zbMATH Keywords

Euler-Lagrange equationlevel set methodactive contour modelcurve evolutionpseudo stationary phenomenon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55) Image processing (compression, reconstruction, etc.) in information and communication theory (94A08)

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