On active contour models and balloons

A Computational Approach to Edge Detection

John Canny · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 1986 · 29.1K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Vision +16

Snakes: Active contour models

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

Computing, Computer Science, Computational Geometry +10

Multiresolution elastic matching

Ruzena Bajcsy, S. Kovacic · Computer Vision Graphics and Image Processing · 1989 · 1.1K citations

Using Canny's criteria to derive a recursively implemented optimal edge detector

Rachid Deriche · International Journal of Computer Vision · 1987 · 1.1K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Algorithms +11

Constraints on deformable models:Recovering 3D shape and nonrigid motion

Demetri Terzopoulos, Andrew Witkin, Michael Kass · Artificial Intelligence · 1988 · 770 citations

Computing, Computer Science, 3D Modeling +13