An effective algorithm for the segmentation of digital plane curves - The isoparametric formulation

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 171-176

  Pham, Tuan D ^a   Yan, Hong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Curves; Isoparametric shape function; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

DIGITAL PLANE CURVES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0031995413     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(97)00171-2     Document Type: Article

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