On the Calculation of Fractal Features from Images

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 1993, Pages 1087-1090

  Chen, Susan S ^a   Keller, James M ^b   Crownover, Richard M ^b  

^a Allied Bendix/King Radio Corporation ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Box dimension; fractal; fractional Brownian motion; geometry; image features; mass density function; scale insensitive measurements

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FRACTALS; GEOMETRY; HEURISTIC METHODS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BOX COUNTING METHOD; BOX DIMENSION; FRACTAL GEOMETRY; FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION; MASS DENSITY FUNCTION; SCALE INSENSITIVE MEASUREMENTS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0027677405     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.254066     Document Type: Article

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