Automatic landmarking for building biological shape models

Hicks, Y., Marshall, D., Martin, R.R., Rosin, P.L., Bayer, M.M. and Manning, D.G. (2002) Automatic landmarking for building biological shape models. In: International Conference on Image Processing, New York, 22-25 September 2002, pp. 801-804. (doi: 10.1109/ICIP.2002.1040072)

Abstract

We present a new method for automatic landmark extraction from the contours of biological specimens. Our ultimate goal is to enable automatic identification of biological specimens in photographs and drawings held in a database. We propose to use active appearance models for visual indexing of both photographs and drawings. Automatic landmark extraction will assist us in building the models. We describe the results of using our method on drawings and photographs of examples of diatoms, and present an active shape model built using automatically extracted data.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Manning, Prof David
• Authors: Hicks, Y., Marshall, D., Martin, R.R., Rosin, P.L., Bayer, M.M., and Manning, D.G.
• Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• ISSN: 1522-4880
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2002 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• First Published: First published in Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Image Processing
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher