Active contour models, or snakes, are widely used in image analysis for boundary
identification and mapping. One difficulty with snakes is their inability to converge to concave …

This report is written by Nikolas Petteri Tiilikainen as part of a graduate level project at the
computer science department of Copenhagen University,(DIKU). The subject of interest is …

A brief overview of deformable contour models, called snakes, is presented. These energy-
minimizing curves are constrained by internal continuity forces (tension and bending) and …

A dual active contour can use two snakes to seek an energy minimum which lies between
their initial positions. This relieves problems associated with initialisation. The contraction …

The use of deformable models to extract features of interest in images has been introduced
by Kass et al, known as snakes or energy minimizing curves. We present a model of …

The stability of active contour models or'snakes' is studied. It is shown that the modification of
snake parameters using adaptive systems improves both the stability of the snakes and the …

Active contour models–known colloquially as snakes–are energy-minimising curves that
deform to fit image features. Snakes lock on to nearby minima in the potential energy …

The use of energy-minimizing curves, known as" snakes" to extract features of interest in
images has been introduced by Kass, Witkin and Terzopoulos (1987). A balloon model was …

Snake is an active contour model for representing image contours. In this paper, we propose
an efficient active contour model which can represent highly irregular boundaries. The …

We present in this paper a new method to track moving objects. It is based on snakes or
active contour models. We are concerned with football game analysis and so the moving …