Corner detection in color images through a multiscale combination of end-stopped cortical cells

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 531-541

  Wurtz R P ^a   Lourens, T ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

MULTISCALE METHODS;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 0342626654     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0262-8856(99)00061-X     Document Type: Article

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