Fast and accurate edge-based segmentation with no contour smoothing in 2-D real images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1232-1237

  Iannizzotto, Giancarlo ^a   Vita, Lorenzo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY;

ACTIVE CONTOURS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0034227750     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.847835     Document Type: Article

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