Contour detection based on nonclassical receptive field inhibition

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 729-739

  Grigorescu, Cosmin ^a   Petkov, Nicolai ^a   Westenberg, Michel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Canny operator; Contour detection; Edge detection; Gabor energy; Nonclassical receptive field inhibition; Surround suppression; Texture

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

CONTOUR DETECTION;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 0042665432     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2003.814250     Document Type: Article

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