A NEW APPLICATION FOR 3D-SNAKES - Modelling Electrical Discharges

Gilmario Barbosa dos Santos, Sidney Pinto da Cunha, Clesio Luiz Tozzi

2009

Abstract

A new approach for modelling electrical discharges is proposed. To this purpose, an active contour named 3Dsnake is used that is geometrically represented by a B-spline which evolves in 3D space constrained by internal and external energies. More specifically, this external energy come from a pair of images. This new model is much less dependent on determination of homologous points than the approaches found in the literature for recovering 3D geometry of electrical discharges. In addition, the proposal discussed here is capable of tracking the evolution os the electrical discharge taking into account the time dependence between consecutive pairs of frames in two videos.

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Barbosa dos Santos G., Pinto da Cunha S. and Luiz Tozzi C. (2009). A NEW APPLICATION FOR 3D-SNAKES - Modelling Electrical Discharges . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2, pages 546-553. DOI: 10.5220/0001803205460553


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp09,
author={Gilmario Barbosa dos Santos and Sidney Pinto da Cunha and Clesio Luiz Tozzi},
title={A NEW APPLICATION FOR 3D-SNAKES - Modelling Electrical Discharges},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={546-553},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001803205460553},
isbn={978-989-8111-69-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - A NEW APPLICATION FOR 3D-SNAKES - Modelling Electrical Discharges
SN - 978-989-8111-69-2
AU - Barbosa dos Santos G.
AU - Pinto da Cunha S.
AU - Luiz Tozzi C.
PY - 2009
SP - 546
EP - 553
DO - 10.5220/0001803205460553