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Feature Points Tracking of Digital Image By One-Directional Iterating Layer Snake Model  

Hwang, Jung-Won (Dept. of Media, Soongsil University)
Hwang, Jae-Ho (Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Hanbat National University)
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Abstract
A discrete dynamic model for tracking feature points in 2D images is developed. Conventional snake approaches deform a contour to lock onto features of interest within an image by finding a minimum of its energy functional, composed of internal and external forces. The neighborhood around center snaxel is a space matrix, typically rectangular. The structure of the model proposed in this paper is a set of connected vertices. Energy model is designed for its local minima to comprise the set of alternative solutions available to active process. Block on tracking is one dimension, line type. Initial starting points are defined to the satisfaction of indent states, which is then automatically modified by an energy minimizing process. The track is influenced by curvature constraints, ascent/descent or upper/lower points. The advantages and effectiveness of this layer approach may also be applied to feature points tracking of digital image whose pixels have one directional properties with high autocorrelation between adjacent data lines, vertically or horizontally. The test image is the ultrasonic carotid artery image of human body, and we have verified its effect on intima/adventitia starting points tracking.
Keywords
Snakes; Energy model; Feature Tracking; Curvature Constraints; Intima-Media Thickness;
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