%0 Journal Article %A XU Qiu-ping %A GUO Min %A TIAN Li-li %T Contour extraction based on GVF Snake and graph cuts %D 2008 %R 10.3778/j.issn.1002-8331.2008.28.053 %J Computer Engineering and Applications %P 158-160 %V 44 %N 28 %X Aiming at the limitations of the huge waste of time in traditional GVF Snake,a novel contour extraction of objects method based on GVF Snake and graph cuts is proposed.First,use graph cuts to obtain coarse contour which is in the valid approach region.Then take the contour obtained above as initialized contour of GVF Snake.Finally,GVF Snake evolves to precise target contour.Experiments show that this method can converge to target contour fast and exactly,and is robust to noise. %U http://cea.ceaj.org/EN/10.3778/j.issn.1002-8331.2008.28.053