Some PhD theses on Higher Order Active Models (HOACs) defended at ARIANA Group:
- Thesis of Aymen El Ghoul on "Phase fields for network extraction from images" (2010).
- Thesis of Ting Peng on "New Higher-Order Active Contour Models, Shape Priors, and Multiscale Analysis: Their Application to Road Network Extraction from Very High Resolution Satellite Images" (2008).
- Thesis of Peter Horvath on "The Gas of Circles Model and its Application to Tree Crown Extraction" (2007).
- Thesis (in French) of Marie Rochery on "Higher Order Active Contours for the Detection of curvilinear structures in Teledetection Images" (2005).
Some key papers on HOACs and Phase Fields published by ARIANA Group:
- Extended Phase Field Higher-Order Active Contour Models for Networks. T. Peng, I. H. Jermyn, V. Prinet and J. Zerubia. International Journal of Computer Vision, 88(1): pages 111-128, May 2010.
- Incorporating generic and specific prior knowledge in a multi-scale phase field model for road extraction from VHR images. T. Peng, I. H. Jermyn, V. Prinet and J. Zerubia. IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 1(2): pages 139-146, June 2008.
- A higher-order active contour model of a "gas of circles" and its application to tree crown extraction. P. Horvath, I. H. Jermyn, Z. Kato and J. Zerubia. Pattern Recognition, 2008.
- Higher-Order Active Contour Energies for Gap Closure. M. Rochery, I. H. Jermyn and J. Zerubia. Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 29(1): pages 1-20, September 2007.
- Higher Order Active Contours. M. Rochery, I. Jermyn and J. Zerubia. International Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 69(1), 27-42, 2005.
Some useful links on shapes and/or active contours:
