Robust Fully-Automatic Segmentation Based on Modified Edge-Following Technique

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 333-336

  Chen, Y B ^a   Chen, Oscal T C ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHIENKUO TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE COMPRESSION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY;

FULLY-AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0141676259     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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