An adaptive finite element procedure for the image segmentation problem

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 621-632

  Yaacobson, Flana S ^a   Givoli, Dan ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adaptive; Finite elements; Image; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BLAKE-ZISSERMAN MODEL; MESH ADAPTIVITY; MUMFORD-SHAH MODEL;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0032119511     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0887(199807)14:7<621::AID-CNM174>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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