Scale space hierarchy

Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 169-189

  Kuijper, Arjan ^a   Florack, Luc M J ^b   Viergever, Max A ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Catastrophe theory; Critical points; Deep structure; Multi scale segmentation; Scale space; Topology

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; GRADIENT METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

MULTISCALE SEGMENTATION; PARAMETERISED CRITICAL CURVES; SCALE SPACE HIERARCHY TREE; SCALE SPACE IMAGE;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037339650     PISSN: 09249907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022168617945     Document Type: Article

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