Deformable model-guided region split and merge of image regions

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 343-354

  Liu, Lifeng ^a   Sclaroff, Stan ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformable templates; Object recognition; Part decomposition; Region segmentation; Statistical shape models

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COSTS; EDGE DETECTION; MERGING; MOTION ESTIMATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; TEXTURES;

DEFORMABLE TEMPLATES; PART DECOMPOSITION; REGION SEGMENTATION; STATISTICAL SHAPE MODELS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0442296216     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2003.11.006     Document Type: Article

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