Zoom-Invariant Vision of Figural Shape: Effects on Cores of Image Disturbances

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 72-86

  Morse, Bryan S ^a   Pizer, Stephen M ^b   Puff, Derek T ^b   Gu, Chenwei ^b  

^a 3361 TMCB   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

IMAGE DISTURBANCES; ZOOM INVARIANT VISION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0031676056     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1997.0564     Document Type: Article

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