Tracking and Describing Deformable
Objects Using Active Contour Models

Frederic F. Leymarie

Master of Engineering thesis

Technical Report CIM-90-9
McGill Research Center for Intellignet Machines

February 1990, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

A Pictorial Tour

1. Tracking and image segmentation

2. Shape via Contour/Curvature Analysis

3. Shape via Region/Medial Analysis