An active contour model for colour region extraction in natural scenes

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 955-966

  Ngoi, K P ^a   Jia, J C ^a  

^a DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Active contour models; Deformable models; Image segmentation

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TOPOLOGY;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODELS; COLOR REGION EXTRACTION; IMAGE BLUR;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0033334685     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0262-8856(98)00169-3     Document Type: Article

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