Logical/Linear Operators for Image Curves

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1995, Pages 982-996

  Iverson, Lee A ^a   Zucker, Steven W ^b  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

computer vision; Edge detection; feature extraction; image processing; nonlinear operators

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER VISION; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FORMAL LOGIC; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

IMAGE CURVES; LOGICAL/LINEAR OPERATORS; NONLINEAR OPERATORS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0029394310     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.464562     Document Type: Article

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