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Active Contours

The Application of Techniques from Graphics, Vision, Control Theory and Statistics to Visual Tracking of Shapes in Motion

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Andrew Blake

    1. Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

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  2. Michael Isard

    1. Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

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  • Provides the first consistent overview of this important and emerging area in book form * Contains a full-colour, 20 page section which illustrates 10 applications of the technology described * Examples and bibliographic notes are included after each chapter, and tutorial code will be made available on the WWW

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Andrew Blake, Michael Isard
      Pages 1-23

  3. Active shape models

    1. Active shape models

      • Andrew Blake, Michael Isard
      Pages 25-37

  4. Geometrical Fundamentals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39
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    2. Spline curves

      • Andrew Blake, Michael Isard
      Pages 41-68

    3. Shape-space models

      • Andrew Blake, Michael Isard
      Pages 69-96

    4. Image processing techniques for feature location

      • Andrew Blake, Michael Isard
      Pages 97-113

    5. Fitting spline templates

      • Andrew Blake, Michael Isard
      Pages 115-139

    6. Pose recovery

      • Andrew Blake, Michael Isard
      Pages 141-156

  5. Probabilistic Modelling

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. Probabilistic models of shape

      • Andrew Blake, Michael Isard
      Pages 159-184

    3. Dynamical models

      • Andrew Blake, Michael Isard
      Pages 185-211

    4. Dynamic contour tracking

      • Andrew Blake, Michael Isard
      Pages 213-234

    5. Learning motion

      • Andrew Blake, Michael Isard
      Pages 235-254

    6. Non-Gaussian models and random sampling algorithms

      • Andrew Blake, Michael Isard
      Pages 255-279

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 281-352
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About this book

Active Contours deals with the analysis of moving images - a topic of growing importance within the computer graphics industry. In particular it is concerned with understanding, specifying and learning prior models of varying strength and applying them to dynamic contours. Its aim is to develop and analyse these modelling tools in depth and within a consistent framework.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Andrew Blake, Michael Isard

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Active Contours

  • Book Subtitle: The Application of Techniques from Graphics, Vision, Control Theory and Statistics to Visual Tracking of Shapes in Motion

  • Authors: Andrew Blake, Michael Isard

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1555-7

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-1557-1Published: 14 June 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-1555-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 352

  • Topics: Computer Graphics, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition

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