Adaptive shape prior for recognition and variational segmentation of degraded historical characters.
Itay Bar YosefAlik MokeichevKlara KedemIts'hak DinsteinUri EhrlichPublished in: Pattern Recognit. (2009)
Keyphrases
- variational segmentation
- shape prior
- active contours
- graph cuts
- handwritten characters
- level set
- deformable models
- shape model
- image segmentation
- object segmentation
- segmentation algorithm
- active contour model
- level set segmentation
- statistical shape
- energy functional
- recognition rate
- global optimization
- object recognition
- energy function
- statistical models
- segmentation method
- license plate
- prior knowledge
- feature extraction
- pose invariant
- robust segmentation
- pattern recognition
- prior information
- recognition algorithm
- variational framework
- bayesian framework
- action recognition
- image analysis
- higher order
- intensity information
- machine learning
- prior shape