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    Computer vision & multimodal· 1988

    Snakes: Active Contour Models

    Michael Kass (first author) · 1988

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    DOI 10.1007/bf00133570OpenAlex W2104095591

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    Why it matters

    Introduced energy-minimizing deformable contours, foundational to segmentation and object tracking.

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    First released
    1988 (from OpenAlex)
    Citations
    17,120 citations, as counted by OpenAlex (CC0)
    Awards
    ICCV Helmholtz Prize
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    Score
    0.511 · computed rank 227 · consensus 0.15, must-read 0, citations percentile 0.902 (1980s · all domains), awards 1, existing lists 0. Method

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