The patchwork engine: image segmentation from shape symmetries

Neural Networks

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 291-303

  Van Tonder, G J ^a   Ejima, Y ^a  

^a Kyoto University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boundary reconstruction; Image segmentation; Lateral connections; Shape centroid; Symmetry axes

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERPOLATION;

BLIND IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; IMAGING; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; VISION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034069396     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-6080(99)00105-7     Document Type: Article

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