Unsupervised video segmentation based on watersheds and temporal tracking

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 539-546

  Wang, Demin ^a  

^a Industry Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Motion estimation; Object tracking; Video coding; Video segmentation; Watersheds

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE CODING;

OBJECT TRACKING; WATERSHEDS TRANSFORMATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0032162750     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/76.718501     Document Type: Article

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