Segmentation of complex food images by stick growing and merging algorithm

Journal of Food Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 1 SPEC., 2004, Pages 17-26

  Sun, Da Wen ^a   Du, Cheng Jin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Apple; Computer vision; Image analysis; Image processing; Image segmentation; Pizza; Pork; Potato; Stick growing and merging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; DECOMPOSITION; FOOD PRODUCTS; MERGING;

FOOD IMAGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

MALUS X DOMESTICA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0041783125     PISSN: 02608774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0260-8774(03)00184-5     Document Type: Article

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