Perceptual Organization of Occluding Contours of Opaque Surfaces

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 70-82

  Saund, E ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; EDGE DETECTION; GRAPH THEORY; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPACITY; OPTIMIZATION;

CONTOURS BOUNDING OPAQUE OCCLUDING SURFACES; PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0033204729     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1999.0789     Document Type: Article

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