@article{eprints2621, author = {Mohammed Abdelsamea and Giorgio Gnecco}, journal = {Electronics Letters}, publisher = {IEEE}, year = {2015}, title = {Robust local?global SOM-based ACM}, number = {2}, pages = {142--143}, month = {January}, volume = {51}, abstract = {A novel active contour model (ACM) for image segmentation, driven by both local and global image-intensity information encoded by a self-organising map (SOM), is proposed. Experimental results demonstrate the robustness of the proposed model to the contour initialisation and to the additive noise, when compared with the state-of-the-art local and global ACMs. They also demonstrate its robustness to scene changes.}, url = {http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2621/} }