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Tongue, lips, palate, and throat are tracked in X-ray films showing the side-view of the vocal tract. Specialized histogram normalization techniques and a new tracking method that is robust against occlusion, noise, and spontaneous, non-linear deformations of objects are used. Although the segmentation procedure is optimized for the X-ray images of the vocal tract, the underlying tracking method can be used in other applications.
This work has been performed with financial support from the Swiss National Science Foundation under Contract No. 21 49 725 96.
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Thimm, G. (1999). Tracking Articulators in X-ray Movies of the Vocal Tract. In: Solina, F., Leonardis, A. (eds) Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns. CAIP 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1689. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48375-6_16
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