Snake Validation: A PCA-Based Outlier Detection Method

doi:10.1109/LSP.2009.2017477

2009-06-01

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Baidya Nath Saha *

Nilanjan Ray

Hong Zhang

DOI：10.1109/LSP.2009.2017477

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We utilize outlier detection by principal component analysis (PCA) as an effective step to automate snakes/active contours for object detection. The principle of our approach is straightforward: we allow snakes to evolve on a given image and classify them into desired object and non-object classes. To perform the classification, an annular image band around a snake is formed. The annular band is considered as a pattern image for PCA. Extensive experiments have been carried out on oil-sand and leukocyte images and the performance of the proposed method has been compared with two other automatic initialization and two gradient-based outlier detection techniques. Results show that the proposed algorithm improves the performance of automatic initialization techniques and validates snakes more accurately than other outlier detection methods, even when considerable object localization error is present.

Keyword:

Active contour

classification

principal component analysis

snake