Statistical Approaches to Feature-Based Object Recognition

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 21, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 63-98

  Wells III, William M ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHM; NORMAL GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTIONS; SYNTHETIC RANGE IMAGES; VIDEO IMAGES;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030674039     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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