Phase-change line tracking and application from complex phase-change thermography sequence[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2011, 16(6): 968-975. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20110617.
A new method based on C-V active contour model is proposed to extract phase-change line automatically from complex phase-change thermography sequence. First
an accurate image matching measure based on structural characteristics is developed to solve the location bias in some frames of phase-change thermography sequence. Second,effective phase-change information is obtained according to the inter-frame difference between the template image and the differential image contrast enhancement. Finally
a phase-change line tracking algorithm is presented by introducing shape priori characteristics into C-V active contour model. The method is able to rapidly solve multi-phase change lines and topology change problems which can’t be solved with existing methods. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is validated and compared to alternative methods with variant test models. The software system based on the algorithm has been successfully applied in practice.