Title
Automating snakes for multiple objects detection
Abstract
Active contour or snake has emerged as an indispensable interactive image segmentation tool in many applications. However, snake fails to serve many significant image segmentation applications that require complete automation. Here, we present a novel technique to automate snake/active contour for multiple object detection. We first apply a probabilistic quad tree based approximate segmentation technique to find the regions of interest (ROI) in an image, evolve modifed GVF snakes within ROIs and finally classify the snakes into object and nonobject classes using boosting. We propose a novel loss function for boosting that is more robust to outliers concerning snake classification and we derive a modified Adaboost algorithm by minimizing the proposed loss function to achieve better classification results. Extensive experiments have been carried out on two datasets: one has importance in oil sand mining industry and the other one is significant in bio-medical engineering. Performances of proposed snake validation have been compared with competitive methods. Results show that proposed algorithm is computationally less expensive and can delineate objects up to 30% more accurately as well as precisely.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-19318-7_4
ACCV (3)
Keywords
Field
DocType
snake classification,proposed loss function,approximate segmentation technique,proposed snake validation,automating snake,gvf snake,significant image segmentation application,indispensable interactive image segmentation,proposed algorithm,multiple objects detection,better classification result,active contour,oil sand,region of interest,loss function,indexing terms
Active contour model,Object detection,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Segmentation,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Boosting (machine learning),Probabilistic logic,Quadtree,Decision stump
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6494
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Baidya Nath Saha1597.95
Ray Nilanjan254155.39
Hong Zhang358274.33