Active Contours without Level Sets

Romain Yildizoglu (1) , Jean-François Aujol (1) , Nicolas Papadakis (2)

1 IMB - Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux
2 MOISE - Modelling, Observations, Identification for Environmental Sciences

This paper deals with the problem of segmenting an image with active contours. We explain how recent convexification methods allow now to use active contours without level sets with simple and efficient first order schemes. We recall different algorithms proposed in the literature, and we propose a new variant. Numerical experiments in 2D and 3D confirm the interest of the approach.

Mots clés: Segmentation; active contours; convexification; total variation

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Romain Yildizoglu, Jean-François Aujol, Nicolas Papadakis. Active Contours without Level Sets. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'12), Sep 2012, Orlando, Florida, United States. pp.2549-2552, ⟨10.1109/ICIP.2012.6467418⟩. ⟨hal-00696065⟩