Interactive segmentation and contour extraction for automatic phenotyping Lipizzaner horses

Pucher, Daniel; Kropatsch, Walter G.

by Daniel Pucher, Walter G. Kropatsch

Abstract:

In this paper we introduce a new custom software that was developed to support researchers in their study of exterior movement characteristics of the Lipizzaner horses. It uses an interactive image segmentation algorithm to segment a single horse in a given image from the background. The interactive algorithms offer a good tradeoff between accuracy and user interaction and allows faster segmentation than manual tools. Based on the resulting foreground mask of the horse, the whole contour or a segment of it can be exported for further analysis.

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Reference:

Interactive segmentation and contour extraction for automatic phenotyping Lipizzaner horses (Daniel Pucher, Walter G. Kropatsch), Technical report, PRIP, TU Wien, 2019.

Bibtex Entry:

@TechReport{TR146,
  author      = "Daniel Pucher and Walter G. Kropatsch",
  title       = "Interactive segmentation and contour extraction for automatic phenotyping {Lipizzaner} horses",
  institution = "PRIP, TU Wien",
  number      = "PRIP-TR-146",
  year        = "2019",
  url         = "https://www.prip.tuwien.ac.at/pripfiles/trs/tr146.pdf",
  abstract    = "In this paper we introduce a new custom software that was developed to support researchers in their study of exterior movement characteristics of the Lipizzaner horses. It uses an interactive image segmentation algorithm to segment a single horse in a given image from the background. The interactive algorithms offer a good tradeoff between accuracy and user interaction and allows faster segmentation than manual tools. Based on the resulting foreground mask of the horse, the whole contour or a segment of it can be exported for further analysis.",
}