Document gray-scale reduction using a neuro-fuzzy technique

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 505-527

  Papamarkos, Nikos ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Binarization; FCM; Fuzzy logic; Multi thresholding; Self organized neural networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FUZZY C-MEANS ALGORITHM; GRAY SCALE REDUCTION; KOHONEN SELF ORGANIZED FEATURE MAP; NEURO-FUZZY TECHNIQUE;

SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

EID: 0042343730     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001403002502     Document Type: Article

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