Differential and Integral Geometry of Linear Scale-Spaces

Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 5-27

  Salden, Alfons H ^a,b   Ter Haar Romeny, Bart M ^a,b,c,d   Viergever, Max A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Affine connection; Affine rotation vector fields; Bianchi identities; Curvature; Differential geometry; Integral geometry; Linear scale space theory; Metric; Similarity jet; Structure equations; Superposition principles; Torsion; Translation vector field

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; TOPOLOGY; TORSIONAL STRESS; VECTORS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

AFFINE CONNECTION; AFFINE ROTATION VECTOR FIELDS; BIANCHI IDENTITIES; CURVATURE; DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY; INTEGRAL GEOMETRY; LINEAR SCALE-SPACE THEORY; SIMILARITY JET; STRUCTURE EQUATIONS; TRANSLATION VECTOR FIELD; SUPERPOSITION PRINCIPLES;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032121545     PISSN: 09249907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008253609285     Document Type: Article

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