Inferring global perceptual contours from local features

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 113-133

  Guy, Gideon ^a   Medioni, Gérard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

COCURVILINEARITY; CONTINUITY; CONTOUR INFERENCE; EXTENSION FIELD; GENERIC CONSTRAINTS; GLOBAL PERCEPTUAL; SALIENCY MAP;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 0030263225     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00144119     Document Type: Article

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