Deformable Contour Method: A Constrained Optimization Approach, submitted to International Journal of Computer Vision

In this paper, a new deformable contour method derived from a constrained contour energy minimization framework is presented. By imposing a constraint of region, which can be any function characterizing features of the contour interior structures (including homogeneity, texture, and color, etc.), to boundary-based contour energy minimization, the method can incorporate a very general class of modeling information from both boundary and interior region. More favourable results comparing to the conventional deformable contour methods are demonstrated