Shape from texture: Estimation of planar surface orientation through the ridge surfaces of continuous wavelet transform

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 773-780

  Hwang, Wen L ^a   Lu, Chun Shien ^b   Chung, Pau Choo ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Continuous wavelet transform; Ridge point; Shape from texture

Indexed keywords

SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEXTURES; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORMS (CWT); PLANAR SURFACE ORIENTATION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032074903     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.668032     Document Type: Article

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