To generate parallel contour path for direct production of complicated cavity component, a novel path planning based on Voronoi-based distance map is presented in this paper. Firstly, the grid representation of polygonal slice is produced by hierarchical rasterization using graphics hardware acceleration and divided into Voronoi cells of contour by an exact EDT (Euclidean distance transformatio...

We present a new contour-based background-subtraction technique to detect people in widely varying thermal imagery. Statistical background-subtraction is first used to identify local regions-of-interest. Within each region, gradient information in the foreground and background are combined to form a contour saliency map. After thinning, an A* path-constrained search along watershed boundaries i...

The automatic recognition, including the character, annotation, contour line and so on, is very important in many fields. Here, we focus on the character recognition of the scanned map, because the digitizing map is an important resource data for GIS and automatic recognition character of scanning map is still a key problem, which needs to be solved seriously. In our investigation, which is abo...

Constant-psi constant-delta contour maps in the reduced angle-of-incidence-film-thickness plane that are useful in ellipsometry and in design of reflection-type optical devices are discussed. As a specific example, a contour map is given for the SiO(2)-Si film-substrate system at the 6328-A He-Ne laser wavelength.

The contour tree is a topological abstraction of a scalar field. It represents the nesting relationships of connected components of isosurfaces or contours. The real-world data sets produce unmanageably large contour trees because of noise and artifacts. This makes the contour tree impractical for data analysis and visualization. A meaningful simplification is necessary to the contour tree. Thi...

Segmentation of the left ventricle (LV) is a hot topic in cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) images analysis. In this paper, we present an automatic LV myocardial boundary segmentation method using the parametric active contour model (or snake model). By convolving the gradient map of an image, a fast external force named gradient vector convolution (GVC) is presented for the snake model. A circle...

Scene segmentation is a challenging problem that can be a prelude to many further applications in computer vision. This paper describes a novel MAP framework for automatic and robust scene segmentation in image sequences under mobile camera without any human interaction. First, an initial partition of the scene is achieved by watershed segmentation algorithm. However segmentation based on singl...

This paper mainly focuses on applications for non-rigid contour tracking in heavily cluttered background scenes. Based on the properties of non-rigid contour movements, a cascading framework for estimating contour motion and deformation is proposed. We solve the non-rigid contour tracking problem by decomposing it into three sub problems: motion estimation, deformation estimation, and shape reg...

We present an algorithm for nonrigid contour tracking in heavily cluttered background scenes. Based on the properties of nonrigid contour movements, a sequential framework for estimating contour motion and deformation is proposed. We solve the nonrigid contour tracking problem by decomposing it into three subproblems: motion estimation, deformation estimation, and shape regulation. First, we em...