Diffusion of general data on non-flat manifolds via harmonic maps theory: The direction diffusion case

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 149-161

  Tang, Bei ^a,b   Sapiro, Guillermo ^a,b   Caselles, Vicent ^a,b  

^a University of Minnesota ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL FLOWS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; VECTORS;

HARMONIC MAPS THEORY;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0033893218     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008152115986     Document Type: Article

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