A Biased Vector Field Convolution External Force for Snakes
Tóm tắt
The vector field convolution (VFC) is an effective external force for active contour models. However, it always comes across premature convergence in extracting complex geometries, especially narrow and deep concavity when the initial contour is set outside of the object boundary. In this letter, a biased vector field convolution (BVFC) external force is proposed. In BVFC, an indicator function with respect to the contour and a narrow band are introduced to biasedly utilize the edges gradient information of a concave region. On the other hand, a feature map which better describes the principal curvatures and equally emphasizes both corners and edges is also introduced. Experimental results demonstrate that the BVFC snake improves the performance in extracting object boundary and shows the ability to converge to concavity compared with several state-of-art active contour models.
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