Efficient and enhanced diffusion of vector field for active contour model
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Efficient and enhanced diffusion of vector field for active contour model
zbMATH Open document ID: 1395.94049
DOI: 10.1155/2015/343159
author: Guoqi Liu
author: Lin Sun
author: Shangwang Liu
published in: Mathematical Problems in Engineering
publication date: 2018-08-27T00:00:00Z
review text: Summary: Gradient vector flow (GVF) is an important external force field for active contour models. Various vector fields based on GVF have been proposed. However, these vector fields are obtained with many iterations and have difficulty in capturing the whole image area. On the other hand, the ability to converge to deep and complex concavity with these vector fields is also needed to improve. In this paper, by analyzing the diffusion equation of GVF, a normalized set is defined and a dynamically normalized constraint of vector fields is used for efficient diffusion, which makes the edge vector diffusing rapidly to the entire image region. In order to improve the ability to converge to concavity, an enhanced diffusion term is integrated into the original energy functional. With the dynamically normalized constraint and enhanced diffusion term, new vector fields of EDGVF (efficient and enhanced diffusion for GVF) and EDNGVF (efficient and enhanced diffusion of NGVF) are obtained. Experimental results demonstrate that vector fields with proposed method capture the entire image and are obtained with less iterations and computational times. In particular, EDNGVF greatly improves the ability to converge to concavity.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 94A08
zbMATH DE Number: 6926095
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/343159
OpenAlex ID: W1957230037
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Wikidata QID: Q59118076
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