Intrinsic Bayesian Active Contours for Extraction of Object Boundaries in Images

Authors:
Shantanu H. Joshi;Anuj Srivastava
Affiliations:
Laboratory of Neuroimaging, University of California, Los Angeles, USA 90024;Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA 32306
Venue:
International Journal of Computer Vision
Year:
2009

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Abstract

We present a framework for incorporating prior information about high-probability shapes in the process of contour extraction and object recognition in images. Here one studies shapes as elements of an infinite-dimensional, non-linear quotient space, and statistics of shapes are defined and computed intrinsically using differential geometry of this shape space. Prior models on shapes are constructed using probability distributions on tangent bundles of shape spaces. Similar to the past work on active contours, where curves are driven by vector fields based on image gradients and roughness penalties, we incorporate the prior shape knowledge in the form of vector fields on curves. Through experimental results, we demonstrate the use of prior shape models in the estimation of object boundaries, and their success in handling partial obscuration and missing data. Furthermore, we describe the use of this framework in shape-based object recognition or classification.