Unsupervised Segmentation of Colored Texture Images by Using Multiple GMRF Models and a Hypothesis of Merging Primitives

Systems and Computers in Japan

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 29-39

  Echigo, Tomio ^a   Iisaku, Shun Ichi ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Ministry of Posts and Telecommunication   (Japan)

Author keywords

Markov random field; Segmentation; Split and merge algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345813175     PISSN: 08821666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-684X(200002)31:2<29::AID-SCJ4>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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