Optimal Gabor Filters for Texture Segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 947-964

  Dunn, Dennis ^a   Higgins, William E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDPASS FILTERS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER VISION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

GABOR ELEMENTARY FUNCTIONS; HUMAN PERCEPTION; OPTIMAL GABOR FILTERS; RICIAN RANDOM VARIABLES; TEXTURE SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0029343445     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: 19410042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.392336     Document Type: Article

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