New image segmentation method based on human brightness perception and foveal adaptation

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 129-131

  Heucke, Lars ^a   Knaak, Mirko ^b   Orglmeister, Reinhold ^b  

^a HyperCIS AG   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

BRIGHTNESS; PSYCHOVISUAL PHENOMENA;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0033686476     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/97.844629     Document Type: Article

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