Segmentation of natural images using anisotropic diffusion and linking of boundary edges

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1993-1999

  Maeda, Junji ^a   Iizawa, Takuya ^a   Ishizaka, Tohru ^a   Ishikawa, Chiharu ^b   Suzuki, Yukinori ^a  

^a MURORAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Boundary edge; Edge linking; Image segmentation; Region growing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTI-ALIASING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION ALGORITHMS; EDGE-PRESERVING SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

BOUNDARY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0032463558     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(98)00056-9     Document Type: Article

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