TY - CONF AU - Debora Gil AU - Petia Radeva AU - Fernando Vilariño PY - 2003// TI - Anisotropic Contour Completion BT - Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing CY - Barcelona, Spain N2 - In this paper we introduce a novel application of the diffusion tensor for anisotropic image processing. The Anisotropic Contour Completion (ACC) we suggest consists in extending the characteristic function of the open curve by means of a degenerated diffusion tensor that prevents any diffusion in the normal direction. We show that ACC is equivalent to a dilation with a continuous elliptic structural element that takes into account the local orientation of the contours to be closed. Experiments on contours extracted from real images show that ACC produces shapes able to adapt to any curve in an active contour framework. 1. SN - 0-7803-7751-6 L1 - http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/files/GRV2003.pdf N1 - IAM;MV;MILAB;SIAI ID - Debora Gil2003 ER -