Introduction to Active Contours


The purpose of this course is to introduce graduate students to an image segmentation technique called "Active Contours."
I will address theoretical as well as practical issues.

Lectures will be in Brady Memorial Lab (BML-333) which is the conference room for the IPAG group
and will be held every Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.


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Lecture 1: Background, Curves and their Differential Geometry.
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Lecture 2: Curves and their Differential Geometry (contd).
                 Image Boundaries and Edges.
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Lecture 3: Image Boundaries and Edges.
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Lecture 4: Edges and Ridges
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Lecture 5: The Variational Formulation
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Lecture 6: The Calculus of Variations
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Lecture 7: Active Contour Calculations
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