Video segmentation based on multiple features for interactive multimedia applications

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 562-571

  Castagno, Roberto ^a,b   Ebrahimi, Touradj ^a,b   Kunt, Murat ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b IEEE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fuzzy C means; Image features; Interactive segmentation; MPEG 4; Multimedia

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

FUZZY-C MEANS ALGORITHM; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP (MPEG) STANDARDS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0032166447     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/76.718503     Document Type: Article

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