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In this paper, an integrated geometric active contour model is proposed. It combines the directional information about edge location and topological uniform measure based on Haralick operator as a part of driving force with the improved LBF model (active contours with local binary fitting energy) containing region information and an extra term that reshape the level set function as a signed distance function for further evolution. All these measures are united as a unified framework. Experiment results on real images have shown its performance is much better than the LBC model that hybrids the LBF and C-V model (active contours without edges) when information based on Haralick operator is supplied, for it can extract contour of objects much more precisely.
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Li, C., Li, G., Zheng, Y. (2011). An Integrated Active Contour Model Based on Haralick Operator. In: Yu, Y., Yu, Z., Zhao, J. (eds) Computer Science for Environmental Engineering and EcoInformatics. CSEEE 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 158. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22694-6_41
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