On the Imaging of Fractal Surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1988, Pages 704-707

  Kube, Paul ^a,b   Pentland, Alex ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractal dimension; fractals; image models; shape from texture; surface models

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS -- FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACES;

FOURIER POWER SPECTRUM; FRACTAL BROWNIAN ELEVATION FUNCTIONS; FRACTAL SURFACES;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0024071094     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.6779     Document Type: Article

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