Edge linking by a directional potential function (DPF)

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 59-70

  Zhu, Qiuming ^a   Payne, Matt ^a   Riordan, Victoria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Boundary lines; Directional potential function; Edge linking

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER VISION; CURVE FITTING; HEURISTIC METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BOUNDARY LINES; COMPUTER VISION SYSTEMS; DIRECTIONAL POTENTIAL FUNCTION; EDGE LINKING; HOUGH TRANSFORMATION; PIXELS;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 0030079175     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0262-8856(95)01040-8     Document Type: Article

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