MINIMALLY OVERLAPPING PATHS SETS FOR CLOSED CONTOUR EXTRACTION

Julien Mille, Sébastien Bougleux, Laurent Cohen

2012

Abstract

Active contours and minimal paths have been extensively studied theoretical tools for image segmentation. The recent geodesically linked active contour model, which basically consists in a set of vertices connected by paths of minimal cost, blend the benefits of both concepts. This makes up a closed piecewise-defined curve, over which an edge or region energy functional can be formulated. As an important shortcoming, the geodesically linked active contour model in its initial formulation does not guarantee to represent a simple curve, consistent with respect to the purpose of segmentation. In this paper, we propose to extract a similarly piecewise-defined curve from a set of possible paths, such that the resulting structure is guaranteed to represent a relevant closed curve. Toward this goal, we introduce a global constraint penalizing excessive overlap between paths.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Mille J., Bougleux S. and Cohen L. (2012). MINIMALLY OVERLAPPING PATHS SETS FOR CLOSED CONTOUR EXTRACTION . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-03-7, pages 259-268. DOI: 10.5220/0003843102590268

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp12,
author={Julien Mille and Sébastien Bougleux and Laurent Cohen},
title={MINIMALLY OVERLAPPING PATHS SETS FOR CLOSED CONTOUR EXTRACTION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={259-268},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003843102590268},
isbn={978-989-8565-03-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)
TI - MINIMALLY OVERLAPPING PATHS SETS FOR CLOSED CONTOUR EXTRACTION
SN - 978-989-8565-03-7
AU - Mille J.
AU - Bougleux S.
AU - Cohen L.
PY - 2012
SP - 259
EP - 268
DO - 10.5220/0003843102590268