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Active contours are a form of curves that deforms according to an energy minimising function and are widely used in computer vision and image processing applications to extract features of interests from raw images acquired using an image capturing device. One of the major limitations in active contours is its inability to converge accurately when the object of interest exhibits sharp corners. In...