Static Image Segmentation Using Polar Space Transformation Technique

This chapter proposes a polar space-based method to segment the static image automatically. The proposed method aims at segmenting the object of interest by finding the optimal closed contour in the polar space, solving the long-term problem of scale in the Cartesian space. Experimental results further verify and demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed polar space-based method on the challenging datasets.

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