Active contours driven by local Gaussian distribution fitting energy.
Li WangLei HeArabinda MishraChunming LiPublished in: Signal Process. (2009)
Keyphrases
- active contours
- gaussian distribution
- region based active contours
- gradient flow
- force field
- energy minimization
- active contour model
- energy function
- level set
- noise model
- maximum likelihood
- object boundaries
- gradient vector flow
- image segmentation
- level set method
- gaussian mixture model
- shape prior
- energy functional
- covariance matrices
- curve evolution
- segmentation method
- gradient flows
- active contour segmentation
- external force
- texture image segmentation
- external forces
- feature selection
- expectation maximization
- least squares
- active appearance models
- intensity distribution
- curve fitting
- partial differential equations