Fast Geodesic Active Contours

Roman Goldenberg, Ron Kimmel, Ehud Rivlin, and Michael Rudzsky.
Fast Geodesic Active Contours.
In Scale-Space, 34-45, 1999

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Abstract

We use an unconditionally stable numerical scheme to implement a fast version of the geodesic active contour model. The proposed scheme is useful for object segmentation in images, like tracking moving objects in a sequence of images. The method is based on the Weickert–Romeney–Viergever (additive operator splitting) AOS scheme. It is applied at small regions, motivated by Adalsteinsson-Sethian level set narrow band approach, and uses Sethian's fast marching method for re-initialization. Experimental results demonstrate the power of the new method for tracking in color movies.

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@inproceedings{GoldenbergKRR99i,
  title = {Fast Geodesic Active Contours.},
  author = {Roman Goldenberg and Ron Kimmel and Ehud Rivlin and Michael Rudzsky},
  year = {1999},
  booktitle = {Scale-Space},
  pages = {34-45},
  keywords = {Object recognition; Image analysis; Mathematical models; Partial differential equations; Set theory; Convergence of numerical methods},
  abstract = {We use an unconditionally stable numerical scheme to implement a fast version of the geodesic active contour model. The proposed scheme is useful for object segmentation in images, like tracking moving objects in a sequence of images. The method is based on the Weickert–Romeney–Viergever (additive operator splitting) AOS scheme. It is applied at small regions, motivated by Adalsteinsson-Sethian level set narrow band approach, and uses Sethian's fast marching method for re-initialization. Experimental results demonstrate the power of the new method for tracking in color movies.}
}