Detecting perceptually salient texture regions in images

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 93-108

  Syeda Mahmood, T F ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

PERCEPTUAL GROUPING; TEXTURE SALIENCY;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033204579     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1999.0784     Document Type: Article

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