Robust Object Segmentation using Active Contours and Shape Prior

Mohamed Amine Mezghich, Malek Sellami, Slim M'hiri, Faouzi Ghorbel

2013

Abstract

In this paper, we intend to present new method to incorporate geometric shape prior into region-based active contours in order to improve its robustness to noise and occlusions. The proposed shape prior is defined after the registration of binary images associated with level set functions of the active contour and a reference shape. The used registration method is based on phase correlation. This representation makes it possible to manage several objects simultaneously. Experimental results show the ability of the proposed geometric shape prior to constrain an evolving curve towards a target shape. We highlight, on synthetic and real images, the benefit of the method on segmentation results in presence of partial occlusions, low contrast and noise.

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Amine Mezghich M., M'hiri S., Sellami M. and Ghorbel F. (2013). Robust Object Segmentation using Active Contours and Shape Prior . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM, ISBN 978-989-8565-41-9, pages 547-553. DOI: 10.5220/0004263005470553


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@conference{icpram13,
author={Mohamed Amine Mezghich and Slim M'hiri and Malek Sellami and Faouzi Ghorbel},
title={Robust Object Segmentation using Active Contours and Shape Prior},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM,},
year={2013},
pages={547-553},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004263005470553},
isbn={978-989-8565-41-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM,
TI - Robust Object Segmentation using Active Contours and Shape Prior
SN - 978-989-8565-41-9
AU - Amine Mezghich M.
AU - M'hiri S.
AU - Sellami M.
AU - Ghorbel F.
PY - 2013
SP - 547
EP - 553
DO - 10.5220/0004263005470553