Title :
Commentary Paper on "Textural Segmentation of Sidescan Sonar Images Based on Gabor Filters Bank and Active Contours without Edges"
Author :
Komodakis, Nikos ; Bebis, George
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Crete Heraklion, Greece
Abstract :
In this paper the authors present a technique suitable for segmenting high resolution sidescan sonar images, which is a problem that may arise in military or civilian applications. To this end, they use the "active contours without edges" model that was proposed by Chan and Vese.
Keywords :
Gabor filters; edge detection; image segmentation; image texture; sonar imaging; Gabor filters bank; active contours; high resolution sidescan sonar images; textural segmentation; Active contours; Computer science; Context modeling; Gabor filters; Image resolution; Image segmentation; Level set; Sonar applications; Surveillance; Videoconference;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, 2008. AVSS '08. IEEE Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Santa Fe, NM
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3341-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3422-0
DOI :
10.1109/AVSS.2008.51
