ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE TOPOLOGICAL ACTIVE VOLUMES MODEL - A Tetrahedral Approach

N. Barreira, M. G. Penedo, M. Ortega, J. Rouco

2008

Abstract

The Topological Active Volumes model is a 3D active model focused on segmentation and reconstruction tasks. The segmentation process is based on the adjustment of a 3D mesh composed of polyhedra. This adjustment is guided by the minimisation of several energy functions related to the mesh. Even though the original cubic mesh achieves good segmentation results, it has difficulties in some cases due to its shape. This paper proposes a new topology for the TAV mesh based on tetrahedra that overcomes the cubic mesh difficulties. Also, the paper explains an improvement in the tetrahedral topology to increase the accuracy of the results as well as the efficiency of the overall process.

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Barreira N., G. Penedo M., Ortega M. and Rouco J. (2008). ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE TOPOLOGICAL ACTIVE VOLUMES MODEL - A Tetrahedral Approach . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-21-0, pages 529-534. DOI: 10.5220/0001081305290534


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@conference{visapp08,
author={N. Barreira and M. G. Penedo and M. Ortega and J. Rouco},
title={ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE TOPOLOGICAL ACTIVE VOLUMES MODEL - A Tetrahedral Approach},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={529-534},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001081305290534},
isbn={978-989-8111-21-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)
TI - ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE TOPOLOGICAL ACTIVE VOLUMES MODEL - A Tetrahedral Approach
SN - 978-989-8111-21-0
AU - Barreira N.
AU - G. Penedo M.
AU - Ortega M.
AU - Rouco J.
PY - 2008
SP - 529
EP - 534
DO - 10.5220/0001081305290534