Fuzzy rule-based approach to scene description involving spatial relationships

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-41

  Keller, James M ^a   Wang, Xiaomei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS;

SPATIAL RELATIONSHIP MATRIX;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0034298796     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.2000.0872     Document Type: Article

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