
7
Bayesian Active Contours with
Affine-Invariant Elastic Shape Prior
Darshan Bryner
Florida State University
Anuj Srivastava
Florida State University
CONTENTS
7.1 Introduction . .. .. .. . . . .. . . .. . . . .. .. .. . .. . . .. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .. .. . . . . 135
7.1.1 Past work on prior-driven active contours . . .. . . .. . . . . . . 136
7.1.2 O ur approach and c ontr ibutions . .. . . . . . .. .. . . . . . .. .. .. . 137
7.2 Affine-Invariant, Elastic Shape Statistics . . . . .. .. .. . .. . . .. . . . . . . . 138
7.2.1 Affine-invariant, elastic shape analysis . . . . .. . . . . . .. .. .. . 138
7.2.2 Statistical modeling . . . . . . . . .. . .