The multimodal neighborhood signature for modeling object color appearance and applications in object recognition and image retrieval

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-23

  Matas, J ^a,b   Koubaroulis, D ^a   Kittler, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Color; Image retrieval; Mean shift; Mns; Multimodal neighborhood signature; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

IMAGE RENDERING; MULTIMODAL NEIGHBORHOOD SIGNATURE; OBJECT COLOR APPEARANCE;

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0042530119     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.2002.0965     Document Type: Article

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