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Contour Detection

Contour Detection is a feature detection method that identifies continuous curves or boundaries in an image by differentiating regions of significant intensity variation to extract structural outlines representing object shapes.

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Snakes: Active contour models

Michael Kass, Andrew Witkin, Demetri Terzopoulos · International Journal of Computer Vision · 1988 · 17K citations

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Active contours without edges

Tony F. Chan, Luminita A. Vese · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2001 · 10.3K citations

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Use of the Hough transformation to detect lines and curves in pictures

Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart · Communications of the ACM · 1972 · 6.5K citations · Full text

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Contour Detection and Hierarchical Image Segmentation

Pablo Arbeláez, Michael Maire, Charless C. Fowlkes et al. · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2010 · 5.6K citations

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Geodesic Active Contours

Vicent Caselles, Ron Kimmel, Guillermo Sapiro · International Journal of Computer Vision · 1997 · 5.2K citations

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  1. JH
    Johan H. C. Reiber

    Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands

    24 publications · 1.3K citations

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  2. GW
    Guirong Weng

    Soochow University, China

    19 publications · 832 citations

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  3. JM
    Jitendra Malik

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    14 publications · 11.9K citations

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  4. NP
    Nicolai Petkov

    University of Groningen, Netherlands

    12 publications · 1.5K citations

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  5. RJ
    Rob J. van der Geest

    Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands

    12 publications · 550 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    30 h-index

    137 publications

    9.2K citations

  2. Nanyang Technological University

    Singapore, Singapore

    21 h-index

    75 publications

    3.9K citations

  3. Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique

    Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, France

    20 h-index

    65 publications

    7.7K citations

  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    20 h-index

    104 publications

    4.6K citations

  5. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    19 h-index

    49 publications

    32.4K citations

  6. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    18 h-index

    31 publications

    25K citations

  7. Harbin Institute of Technology

    Harbin, China

    18 h-index

    78 publications

    3.5K citations

  8. Erasmus University Rotterdam

    Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    17 h-index

    74 publications

    5.4K citations

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  1. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

    TPAMI · 69 publications · 18.2K citations

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  2. Pattern Recognition

    96 publications · 10.3K citations

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  3. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

    81 publications · 23.1K citations

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  4. Pattern Recognition Letters

    70 publications · 3.7K citations

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  5. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

    32 publications · 3.9K citations

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