Edges: Saliency measures and automatic thresholding

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 139-159

  Rosin, Paul L ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automatic threshold; Edge; Saliency assessment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATIC THRESHOLDING; EDGE GRADIENT MAGNITUDE HISTOGRAM; EDGE SALIENCY; RELAXATION LABELLING;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0030733588     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001380050036     Document Type: Article

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