Suboptimal minimum cluster volume cover-based method for measuring fractal dimension

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 32-41

  Tolle, Charles R ^a   McJunkin, Timothy R ^a   Gorsich, David J ^b  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b US Army Tank Automotive Command   (United States)

Author keywords

Box counting; Clustering; Fractal dimension; Fuzzy C means; Suboptimal cover; Texture analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FRACTALS; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0037247254     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2003.1159944     Document Type: Article

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