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International Journal of Computer Vision 22(1), 61–79 (1997) c 1997 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Manufactured in The Netherlands. Geodesic Active Contours VICENT CASELLES Department of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Illes Balears, 07071 Palma de Mallorca, Spain dmivca0@ps.uib.es RON KIMMEL Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion, I.I.T., Haifa 32000, Israel ron@tx.technion.ac.il GUILLERMO SAPIRO Hewlett-Packard Labs, 1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304 guille@ Received October 17, 1994; Revised February 13, 1995; Accepted July 5, 1995 Abstract. A novel scheme for the detection of object boundaries is presented. The technique is based on active contours evolving in time according to intrinsic geometric measures of the image. The evolving contours naturally split and merge, allowing the simultaneous detection of several objects and both interior and exterior boundaries. The proposed approach is based on the relation between active contours and the computation of geodesics or minimal distance curves. The minimal distance curve lays in a Riemannian space whose metric is defined by the image content. This geodesic approach for object segmentation allows to connect classical “snakes” based on energy minimization and geometric active contours based on the theory of curve evolution.