FORMS: A flexible object recognition and modelling system

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 187-212

  Zhu, Song Chun ^a   Yuille, Alan L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MODAL ANALYSIS;

FLEXIBLE OBJECT RECOGNITION AND MODELLING SYSTEMS (FORMS); PART SEGMENTATION; SKELETON EXTRACTION;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030396412     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf00208719     Document Type: Article

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