Title :
Locating head boundary by snakes
Author :
Lam, Kin-Man ; Yan, Hong
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Sydney Univ., NSW, Australia
Abstract :
Snakes is an active contour model for representing image contours. This active contour model is tailor-made for representing the head boundary in a head-and-shoulders image. The effect of the parameters for snakes is investigated by locating head boundary and a best set of the parameters is suggested. A fast algorithm based on the greedy algorithm for active contour modelling is also presented. This fast algorithm has performance comparable to the greedy algorithm and has the execution time reduced by about 30% on the average
Keywords :
edge detection; face recognition; feature extraction; active contour model; active contour modelling; execution time; fast algorithm; greedy algorithm; head boundary location; head-and-shoulders image; image contours representation; image shape; Active contours; Data mining; Face detection; Facial features; Feedback; Greedy algorithms; Head; Image edge detection; Shape; Spline;
Conference_Titel :
Speech, Image Processing and Neural Networks, 1994. Proceedings, ISSIPNN '94., 1994 International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1865-X
DOI :
10.1109/SIPNN.1994.344976
