Extending the snake image processing algorithm for outlining pigs in scenes

作者: J.A. Marchant , C.P. Schofield

DOI: 10.1016/0168-1699(93)90015-S

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摘要: Abstract Images containing animals are often difficult to process automatically because poor and variable lighting, shadows, overlapping touching lead indistinct or incomplete boundaries. A snake is an algorithm based on the mechanics of elastic loop. It can find continuous boundaries when edge data suffer from above problems. This paper briefly introduces then develops some novel extensions, specially useful for problem outlining pigs in a pen. The tested number images shown give good boundary location cases where simpler methods fail.

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