Ligature instabilities in the perceptual organization of shape

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 231-243

  August, Jonas ^a   Siddiqi, Kaleem ^b   Zucker, Steven W ^c  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

BLUM SKELETON;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0033344260     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1999.0802     Document Type: Article

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