A fuzzy region growing approach for segmentation of color images

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 867-881

  Moghaddamzadeh, Ali ^a   Bourbakis, Nikolaos ^a,b  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Color segmentation; Fuzzy image processing; Fuzzy segmentation; Region growing; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; EDGE DETECTION; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

FUZZY IMAGE PROCESSING; HISTOGRAM;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0031163884     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(96)00084-2     Document Type: Article

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