Inferring region salience from binary and gray-level images

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2349-2362

  Cohen, Yossi ^a   Basri, Ronen ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Perceptual grouping; Region enhancement; Region salience

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTION; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

SALIENCY;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0043201346     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(03)00120-1     Document Type: Article

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