Automatic watershed segmentation of randomly textured color images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1530-1544

  Shafarenko, Leila ^b   Petrou, Maria ^a,b   Kittler, Josef ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Color texture; Image segmentation; Watershed algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

WATERSHED ALGORITHMS;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0031273494     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.641413     Document Type: Article

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