An Efficient Differential Box-Counting Approach to Compute Fractal Dimension of Image

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 115-120

  Sarkar, Nirupam ^a   Chaudhuri, B B ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; EFFICIENCY; FRACTALS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; TEXTURES;

ARTIFICIAL TEXTURED IMAGES; DIFFERENTIAL BOX COUNTING APPROACH; FRACTAL DIMENSION; SELF SIMILIARITY; TEXTURE SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0028336445     PISSN: 00189472     EISSN: 21682909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/21.259692     Document Type: Article

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