This chapter contains a brief review of the theory of edge detection and its nonlocal version — the “snake” or “active contour” theory. The snakes are curves drawn in the image and minimizing a contrast and smoothness energy.
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(2008). Variational or Meaningful Boundaries?. In: From Gestalt Theory to Image Analysis. Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, vol 34. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74378-3_10
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