Robust contour tracking in ultrasound tongue image sequences
- 24 September 2015
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
- Vol. 30 (3-5), 313-327
- https://doi.org/10.3109/02699206.2015.1110714
Abstract
A new contour-tracking algorithm is presented for ultrasound tongue image sequences, which can follow the motion of tongue contours over long durations with good robustness. To cope with missing segments caused by noise, or by the tongue midsagittal surface being parallel to the direction of ultrasound wave propagation, active contours with a contour-similarity constraint are introduced, which can be used to provide ‘prior’ shape information. Also, in order to address accumulation of tracking errors over long sequences, we present an automatic re-initialization technique, based on the complex wavelet image similarity index. Experiments on synthetic data and on real 60 frame per second (fps) data from different subjects demonstrate that the proposed method gives good contour tracking for ultrasound image sequences even over durations of minutes, which can be useful in applications such as speech recognition where very long sequences must be analyzed in their entirety.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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