Accurate object localization in gray level images using the center of gravity measure: Accuracy versus precision

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1379-1384

  Van Assen, H C ^a   Egmont Petersen, M ^a   Reiber, J H C ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Center of gravity; Centroid; Measurement noise; Object position; Object recognition; Subpixel precision; Variance

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

SUBPIXEL PRECISION;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036994940     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2002.806250     Document Type: Article

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