Active Rays: 1-D Contour Point Search for Radial Representation of Active Contours

J. Denzler
Chair for Pattern Recognition
University of Erlangen-Nuremburg
Martensstr. 3
D-91058 Erlangen, Germany

• Motivation
• Related Work
• Energy minimizing elastic contours
• Radial representation of contours: Active Rays
  • Formal Description
  • Energy Description
  • Contour Extraction Formulated as Optimization Problem
  • Discrete Formulation: Any-Time Behavior
• Texture Energies for 1D Rays
• Experiments and Results
  • Extraction of Textured Regions
  • Real-time Tracking of Pedestrians
• Summary
• Appendix: Formal Description
• References
• References
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