Molnar, C. and Kato, Z. and Jermyn, I. (2012) 'A multi-layer phase field model for extracting multiple near-circular objects.', in ICPR 2012 : the 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition, November 11-15, 2012, Tsukuba International Congress Center, Tsukuba Science City, Japan. Piscataway: IEEE, pp. 1427-1430. Proceedings.
Abstract
This paper proposes a functional that assigns low `energy' to sets of subsets of the image domain consisting of a number of possibly overlapping near-circular regions of approximately a given radius: a `gas of circles'. The model can be used as a prior for object extraction whenever the objects conform to the `gas of circles' geometry, e.g. cells in biological images. Configurations are represented by a multi-layer phase field. Each layer has an associated function, regions being defined by thresholding. Intra-layer interactions assign low energy to configurations consisting of non-overlapping near-circular regions, while overlapping regions are represented in separate layers. Inter-layer interactions penalize overlaps. Here we present a theoretical and experimental analysis of the model.
| Item Type: | Book chapter |
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| Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Download PDF (650Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6460409 |
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| Date accepted: | No date available |
| Date deposited: | 30 March 2016 |
| Date of first online publication: | November 2012 |
| Date first made open access: | No date available |
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