Motion-based segmentation by means of active contours

This paper deals with motion segmentation. We use an active contour method to segment the apparent motion computed from two successive frames of an image sequence. In order to obtain accurate segmentation, we combine both intensity and motion information. We examine two different ways for combination and we show results obtained on a real sequence.

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