Strategies for image segmentation combining region and boundary information

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 375-392

  Munoz, X ^a   Freixenet, J ^a   Cufi X ^a   Marti J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Image segmentation; Information fusion; Region detection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

ELEMENTARY SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0037235942     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(02)00262-3     Document Type: Article

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