Fast Boundary Detection: A Generalization and a New Algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn C-26, Issue 10, 1977, Pages 988-998

  Frei, Werner ^a   Chen, Chung Ching ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary detection; Edge detection; Feature extraction; Image processing; Orthogonal basis; Sequential algorithm

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0017545305     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.1977.1674733     Document Type: Article

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