I will update this ticket with a specific algorithm, the name escapes me at the moment. This algorithm will take in a contour or spline, an image, a contour offset (initial position), and potentially some parameters for the canny algorithm. The method will move the points in the spline/contour to yield a parametric solution to the contour (e.g. there is parabola in the image, find the parameter values on the parabola that match it to the edges in the image).
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