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minimum energy.<br />

The attraction <strong>for</strong>ce field consists of two kinds of fields in Eq.<br />

(a) (b) (c)<br />

Figure 5.9. Repulsion <strong>for</strong>ce: (a) interacting snakes with index numbers marked; (b)<br />

the repulsion <strong>for</strong>ce computed <strong>for</strong> the hair outline; (c) the repulsion <strong>for</strong>ce computed<br />

<strong>for</strong> the face outline.<br />

(5.11): one is obtained from edge strength, called gradient vector field (GVF) [127],<br />

<strong>and</strong> the other from a region pressure field (RPF) [133].<br />

−∇E image (v i (s)) = GV F + RP F<br />

)<br />

= GV F + ρ · ⃗N(v i (s)) ·<br />

(1 − |Ecomp i (v i (s)) − µ|<br />

,<br />

kσ<br />

(5.11)<br />

where ⃗ N(v i (s)) is the normal vector on the i th contour v i (s); E comp<br />

i<br />

is the component<br />

energy of the i th component; µ, σ are the mean <strong>and</strong> the st<strong>and</strong>ard deviation of region<br />

energy over a seed region of the i th component; k is a constant that constrains the<br />

energy variation of a component. The advantage of using GVF <strong>for</strong> snake de<strong>for</strong>mation<br />

is that its range of influence is larger than that obtained from gradients, <strong>and</strong> can<br />

attract snakes to a concave shape. A GVF is constructed from an edge map by an<br />

iterative process. However, the construction of GVF is very sensitive to noise in the<br />

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