A human vision based computational model for chromatic texture segregation

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 428-440

  Papathomas, Thomas V ^a,b   Kashi, Ramanujan S ^c   Gorea, Andrei ^d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CHROMATIC TEXTURE SEGREGATION; SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0031168203     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3477.584950     Document Type: Article

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