Efficient evaluations of edge connectivity and width uniformity

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 21-34

  Zhu, Qiuming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

Edge connectivity; Edge quality; Width uniformity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; EDGE DETECTION; EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY;

EDGE CONNECTIVITY; EDGE QUALITY; PIXEL PATTERNS; WIDTH UNIFORMITY;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0030079799     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0262-8856(95)01036-X     Document Type: Article

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