Markov Random Field Models for Unsupervised Segmentation of Textured Color Images

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1995, Pages 939-954

  Panjwani, Dileep Kumar ^a   Healey, Glenn ^b  

^a MENTOR GRAPHICS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

color; color vision; computer vision; machine vision; Markov random fields; Segmentation; texture

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; TEXTURES;

MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODELS; TEXTURED COLOR IMAGES; UNSUPERVISED SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0029394295     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.464559     Document Type: Article

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