Target detection based on coupled shape priors

We proposed a method for target detection based on coupled shape priors. We resorted to a detection based shape priors, watersheds and coupling in this research. We adopt the watershed to segment image into many cells and formed super-pixels. There is a shape prior of target for the image and the prior is used to evaluate the validity of the formed segmentation. At last, we detected target through searching the optimal coupled region between edge of super-pixels and shape priors.