An object oriented segmentation on analog cnn chip

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 837-846

  Arena, Paolo ^a   Basile, Adriano ^a   Bucolo, Maide ^a   Fortuna, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cellular neural networks (CNNs); CNN chip prototype; MPEG 4 video coding standard; Noise filter; Object oriented segmentation (OOS)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (STANDARDS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FILTERS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NONLINEAR NETWORKS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EARLY SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; MOVING PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP; OBJECT ORIENTED SEGMENTATION; SOFTWARE PACKAGE CADETWIN SIMULATOR; SOFTWARE PACKAGE MARGE CNN SIMULATOR;

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0041672398     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2003.813985     Document Type: Article

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