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Artificial intelligenceComputer visionActive contour modelComputer scienceConstraint (computer-aided design)Tracking (education)Spline (mechanical)Feature matchingMatching (statistics)Feature (linguistics)Three-dimensional spacePattern recognition (psychology)Image (mathematics)MathematicsGeometryImage segmentationEngineering

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Year: 1988
Type: article
Volume: 1
Issue: 4
Pages: 321-331
Citations: 16904
Access: Closed

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                                    Michael Kass, 
                                
                                    Andrew Witkin, 
                                
                                    Demetri Terzopoulos
                                
                            (1988). 
                            Snakes: Active contour models. 
                            International Journal of Computer Vision
                            , 1
                            (4)
                            , 321-331.
                            https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00133570

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DOI: 10.1007/bf00133570