Morphological Scale Space for 2D Shape Smoothing

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 121-141

  Jang, Ben K ^a   Chin, Roland T ^b  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

GAUSSIAN SCALE SPACE; MORPHOLOGICAL SCALE SPACE; MULTIPLE SCALE BOUNDARY REPRESENTATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL SHAPE SMOOTHING; WITKIN'S SCALE SPACE FILTERING;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032072383     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1997.0626     Document Type: Article

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