Fuzzy homogeneity and scale-space approach to color image segmentation

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1545-1562

  Cheng, H D ^a   Li, J ^a  

^a Utah State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Color image segmentation; Fuzzy logic; Homogeneity; Maximum entropy principle; Region merge; S function; Scale space filter

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; ENTROPY; FUZZY SETS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

FUZZY HOMOGENEITY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HOMOGENEITY; IMAGE PROCESSING; SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0037411349     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(02)00293-5     Document Type: Article

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