Publications related to Active contour model

Rigidity-Aware Detection for 6D Object Pose Estimation

Mathieu Salzmann, Yinlin Hu, Jingyu Li, Rui Song

Most recent 6D object pose estimation methods first use object detection to obtain 2D bounding boxes before actually regressing the pose. However, the general object detection methods they use are ill-suited to handle cluttered scenes, thus producing poor ...

Ieee Computer Soc2023

Gradient-based Methods for Deep Model Interpretability

Suraj Srinivas

In this dissertation, we propose gradient-based methods for characterizing model behaviour for the purposes of knowledge transfer and post-hoc model interpretation. Broadly, gradients capture the variation of some output feature of the model upon unit vari ...

EPFL2021

Impact of the skull contour definition on Leksell Gamma Knife(R)Icon (TM) radiosurgery treatment planning

Constantin Tuleasca

Introduction The Gamma Knife(R)planning software (TMR 10, Elekta Instruments, AB, Sweden) affords two ways of defining the skull volume, the "historical" one using manual measurements (still perform in some centers) and the new one using image-based skull ...

2020

Max-infinitely divisible models and inference for spatial extremes

Emeric Rolland Georges Thibaud, Raphaël Huser

For many environmental processes, recent studies have shown that the dependence strength is decreasing when quantile levels increase. This implies that the popular max-stable models are inadequate to capture the rate of joint tail decay, and to estimate jo ...

WILEY2021

Geometry in active learning for binary and multi-class image segmentation

Pascal Fua, Raphael Sznitman, Ksenia Konyushkova

We propose an active learning approach to image segmentation that exploits geometric priors to speed up and streamline the annotation process. It can be applied for both background foreground and multi-class segmentation tasks in 2D images and 3D image vol ...

2019

SUBDIVIDE AND CONQUER Active Contours and Surfaces for Biomedical Image Segmentation

Anaïs Laure Marie-Thérèse Badoual

Ongoing advances in imaging techniques create new demands regarding the analysis of images in medicine and biology. Image segmentation is a key step of many image analysis pipelines and its proper execution is a particularly challenging task. This thesis i ...

EPFL2019

SROBB: Targeted Perceptual Loss for Single Image Super-Resolution

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Mohammad Saeed Rad, Hazim Kemal Ekenel

By benefiting from perceptual losses, recent studies have improved significantly the performance of the super-resolution task, where a high-resolution image is resolved from its low-resolution counterpart. Although such objective functions generate near-ph ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2019

Sparse Spline Approximation on the Hypersphere by Generalised Total Variation Basis Pursuit

Matthieu Martin Jean-André Simeoni

Many scientific inquiries in natural sciences involve approximating a spherical field –namely a scalar quantity defined over a continuum of directions– from generalised samples of the latter. Typically, a convex optimisation problem is formulated in terms ...

2019

Object Shape Approximation and Contour Adaptive Depth Image Coding for Virtual View Synthesis

Pascal Frossard, Yuan Yuan

A depth image provides partial geometric information of a 3D scene, namely the shapes of physical objects as observed from a particular viewpoint. This information is important when synthesizing images of different virtual camera viewpoints via depth-image ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

Personalized Anatomic Eye Model From T1-Weighted Volume Interpolated Gradient Echo Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Patients With Uveal Melanoma

Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Raphael Sznitman, Alessia Pica

Purpose: We present a 3-dimensional patient-specific eye model from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for proton therapy treatment planning of uveal melanoma (UM). During MRI acquisition of UM patients, the point fixation can be difficult and, together with ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2018

FlyLimbTracker: An Active Contour Based Approach for Leg Segment Tracking in Unmarked, Freely Behaving Drosophila

Michaël Unser, Ricard Delgado Gonzalo, Virginie Sophie Uhlmann

Understanding the biological underpinnings of movement and action requires the development of tools for quantitative measurements of animal behavior. Drosophila melanogaster provides an ideal model for developing such tools: the fly has unparalleled geneti ...

2017

Landmark Active Contours for Bioimage Analysis : A Tale of Points and Curves

Virginie Sophie Uhlmann

The problem of identifying the outline of objects in images can be approached from two starting points, either by considering localized features (landmarks, keypoints or regions), or by searching for global contours. Features are regions or points of int ...

EPFL2017

Fast Segmentation from Blurred Data in 3D Fluorescence Microscopy

Michaël Unser, Martin Kurt Storath

We develop a fast algorithm for segmenting 3D images from linear measurements based on the Potts model (or piecewise constant Mumford-Shah model). To that end, we first derive suitable space discretizations of the 3D Potts model, which are capable of deali ...

2017

General Surface Energy for Spinal Cord and Aorta Segmentation

Michaël Unser, Daniel Andreas Schmitter, Virginie Sophie Uhlmann, Harshit Gupta

We present a new surface energy potential for the segmentation of cylindrical objects in 3D medical imaging using parametric spline active contours (a.k.a. spline-snakes). Our energy formulation is based on an optimal steerable surface detector. Thus, we c ...

IEEE2017

Multiscale Centerline Detection

Pascal Fua, Vincent Lepetit, Engin Türetken, Amos Sironi

Finding the centerline and estimating the radius of linear structures is a critical first step in many applications, ranging from road delineation in 2D aerial images to modeling blood vessels, lung bronchi, and dendritic arbors in 3D biomedical image stac ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Hermite Snakes with Control of Tangents

Michaël Unser, Julien René Pierre Fageot, Virginie Sophie Uhlmann

We introduce a new model of parametric contours defined in a continuous fashion. Our curve model relies on Hermite spline interpolation and can easily generate curves with sharp discontinuities; it also grants direct access to the tangent at each location. ...

IEEE2016

Building Scene Models by Completing and Hallucinating Depth and Semantics

Mathieu Salzmann

Building 3D scene models has been a longstanding goal of computer vision. The great progress in depth sensors brings us one step closer to achieving this in a single shot. However, depth sensors still produce imperfect measurements that are sparse and cont ...

Springer Int Publishing Ag2016

Automated Reconstruction of Evolving Curvilinear Tree Structures

Przemyslaw Rafal Glowacki

Curvilinear networks are prevalent in nature and span many different scales, ranging from micron-scale neural structures in the brain to petameter-scale dark-matter arbors binding massive galaxy clusters. Reliably reconstructing them in an automated fashio ...

EPFL2016

Mumford-Shah and Potts Regularization for Manifold-Valued Data

Martin Kurt Storath

Mumford-Shah and Potts functionals are powerful variational models for regularization which are widely used in signal and image processing; typical applications are edge-preserving denoising and segmentation. Being both non-smooth and non-convex, they are ...

Springer2016

Local Refinement for 3D Deformable Parametric Surfaces

Michaël Unser, Daniel Andreas Schmitter, Anaïs Laure Marie-Thérèse Badoual

Biomedical image segmentation is an active field of research where deformable models have proved to be efficient. The geometric representation of such models determines their ability to approximate the shape of interest as well as the speed of convergence ...

IEEE2016