Object Boundary Detection Using An Optimal Data Association Scheme

In target tracking area, the data association plays an important role and has been studied extensively. In this paper, after defining the data association as a constrained optimization, we introduce a new energy function and thereby an efficient realization of neural networks. As an application, this algorithm is used to detect object boundaries in IR images. The problem is that the IR image noisy, the shape of the object is variable, and the positions of the end points are not predictable. The performance of this algorithm is discussed with the experimental results.