Grouping ., -, →, , into regions, curves, and junctions

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 54-69

  Lee, Mi Suen ^a   Medioni, Gérard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Perceptual grouping; Robust estimation; Shape inference

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TENSORS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE SALIENT STRUCTURES; PERCEPTUAL GROUPING; SHAPE INFERENCE;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0033203678     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1999.0787     Document Type: Article

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