B-Spline Active Contour with Handling of Topology Changes for Fast Video Segmentation

This paper deals with video segmentation for MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 applications. Region-based active contour is a powerful technique for segmentation. However most of these methods are implemented using level sets. Although level-set methods provide accurate segmentation, they suffer from large computat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Frederic Precioso, Michel Barlaud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2002-06-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S1110865702203121