Active Contour Driven by Edge and Region Image Fitting Energy

Abstract:

In this paper, we propose a novel edge and region-based active contour model. We consider geodesic curve and region-based model, and evolve a contour based on global information. Moreover, we add to the level set regularization term in the energy functional to ensure accurate computation and avoids expensive re-initialization of the level set function. Experiments on synthetic and real images show desirable performances of our method.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 532-533)
• Pages: 892-896
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.532-533.892
• Online since: June 2012
• Authors: Hai Yong Xu, Ming Hua Liu
• Keywords: Active Contour, Chan-Vese Model, Geodesic Active Contour, Image Segmentation

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