传统Snake模型存在的缺点是，其初始轮廓必须靠近图像中感兴趣目标的真实边缘，否则会得到错误结果，且由于Snake模型的非凸性，结果不能进入感兴趣目标的深凹部分，很容易陷入局部极小点。由此该文提出一种基于力场分析的主动轮廓模型，详细分析了基于欧氏距离变换的距离势能力场分布,归纳出感兴趣目标上真轮廓点与假轮廓点的判别标准。建立了由曲线能量到最终结果的有效方法，避免了Snake陷入局部极小点。实验结果表明，该模型具有较大的捕获区域，能够进入感兴趣目标的深凹部分，准确提取感兴趣目标的轮廓。与GVFSnake模型相比，该模型具有很小的计算量。

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Active control is an effective method for making two identical Rossler and Chen systems be synchronized. However, this method works only for a certain class of chaotic systems with known parameters both in drive systems and response systems. Modification based on Lyapunov stability theory is proposed in order to overcome this limitation. An adaptive synchronization controller, which can make the states of two identical Rossler and Chen systems globally asymptotically synchronized in the presence of system's unknown constant parameters, is derived. Especially, when some unknown parameters are positive, we can make the controller more simple, besides, the controller is independent of those positive uncertain parameters. At last, when the condition that arbitrary unknown parameters in two systems are identical constants is cancelled, we demonstrate that it is possible to synchronize two chaotic systems. All results are proved using a well-known Lyapunov stability theorem. Numerical simulations are given to validate the proposed synchronization approach.

Track initiation and termination is an important function in multi-target tracking (MTT), it is a decision part for establishing the records of the new targets and terminating the unwanted records of the inexistent targets when they leave the surveillance region. But in the heavy cluttered environment, there exists so called "incomplete data problem", due to the unknown state of the target and the sequence of measurements which originate from the target. Because the EM algorithm is an efficient means to solve the "incomplete data problem", a fast track initiation and termination approach applicable to engineering is presented, which combines the sequential probabilistic ratio test (SPRT) with recursive expectation maximization (EM). Here, track initiation and termination is modeled as a hypothesis testing problem. And aiming at the computational difficulty of the likelihood function due to the unknown target state and the sequence of measurements which originate from the target, the recursive EM-based formula of likelihood function is introduced. It gives an efficient solution to track initiation and termination by processing the measurement data sequentially, and its recursive form can meet the real-time demand. The simulation results indicate that the proposed method performs well for track initiation and termination, especially in heavy cluttered environment.

This Letter considers the robust adaptive tracking control problem of a class of uncertain chaotic systems with time-varying unknown but bounded parameters. A novel controller is designed based on the Lyapunov stability theory. The proposed controller ensures that the states of the controlled chaotic systems globally asymptotically track the desired bounded trajectories. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed controller.