Title
Robust Statistical Prior Knowledge For Active Contours Prior Knowledge For Active Contours
Abstract
We propose in this paper a new method of active contours with statistical shape prior. The presented approach is able to manage situations where the prior knowledge on shape is unknown in advance and we have to construct it from the available training data. Given a set of several shape clusters, we use a set of complete, stable and invariants shape descriptors to represent shape. A Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), based on Patrick-Fischer criterion, is then applied to form a distinct clusters in a low dimensional feature subspace. Feature distribution is estimated using an Estimation-Maximization (EM) algorithm. Having a currently detected front, a Bayesian classifier is used to assign it to the most probable shape cluster. Prior knowledge is then constructed based on it's statistical properties. The shape prior is then incorporated into a level set based active contours to have satisfactory segmentation results in presence of partial occlusion, low contrast and noise.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.5220/0006268306450650
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION, IMAGING AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (VISIGRAPP 2017), VOL 4
Keywords
Field
DocType
Active Contours, Prior Knowledge, Shape Descriptors, Linear Discriminant Analysis, Estimation-Maximization
Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Artificial intelligence
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohamed Amine Mezghich111.72
Ines Sakly201.01
Slim M'hiri312.74
Faouzi Ghorbel436146.48