Geodesic active contours
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DOI10.1023/A:1007979827043zbMath0894.68131OpenAlexW3211330693WikidataQ56288859 ScholiaQ56288859MaRDI QIDQ1389378
Guillermo Sapiro, Ron Kimmel, Vincent Caselles
Publication date: 23 June 1998
Published in: International Journal of Computer Vision (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1007979827043
Computing methodologies for image processing (68U10) Pattern recognition, speech recognition (68T10)
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