On hierarchical segmentation for image compression

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 131-144

  Biswas, Sambhunath ^a   Pal, Nikhil R ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Contrast; Correlation; Entropy; Segmentation; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL CORRELATION;

HIERARCHICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0033880314     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(99)00139-7     Document Type: Article

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