Abstract
Since their debut in 1987, snakes (active contour models) have become a standard image analysis technique with several variants now in common use. We present a portable, reusable, software package called `United Snakes'. The package unites the most popular snake variants, including finite difference, B-spline, and Hermite polynomial snakes within the mathematical framework of a general finite element formulation with a choice of shape functions. The package furthermore incorporates a recently proposed snake-like technique known as `livewire'. We integrate snakes and livewire by introducing an effective method for imposing hard constraints on snakes. Our experiments demonstrate that snakes and livewire have complementary strengths and that their union offers a more powerful tool for interactive image analysis, especially for medical imaging applications. United Snakes is implemented in Java as a JavaBean so that it can easily be integrated in end-user application systems.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision |
| Place of Publication | Piscataway, NJ, United States |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Pages | 933-940 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Volume | 2 |
| State | Published - 1999 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1999 7th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'99) - Kerkyra, Greece Duration: Sep 20 1999 → Sep 27 1999 |
Other
| Other | Proceedings of the 1999 7th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'99) |
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| City | Kerkyra, Greece |
| Period | 9/20/99 → 9/27/99 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Software