A new colour image energy for active contours in natural scenes

A new colour image energy for active contours is proposed to segment objects of unknown topologies automatically in the natural scene. An important contribution is the formulation of an analytical expression for thresholding that enables our active contour to handle the effects of uneven illumination and image blur in complex natural scenes.

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