Texture Segmentation Using 2-D Gabor Elementary Functions

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 130-149

  Dunn, Dennis ^a   Higgins, William E ^a   Wakeley, Joseph ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

computer vision; Gabor functions; image segmentation; texture discrimination; Texture segmentation

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; COMPUTER VISION; FRACTALS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TEXTURE DISCRIMINATION; TEXTURE SEGMENTATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL GABOR ELEMENTARY FUNCTIONS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0028380153     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.273736     Document Type: Article

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