Natural image statistics for natural image segmentation

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-19

  Heiler, Matthias ^a   Schnörr, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Level sets; Natural image statistics

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CHANNEL RESPONSE; FILTER RESPONSE; LEVEL SETS; NATURAL IMAGE STATISTICS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 14844354353     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11263-005-4944-7     Document Type: Article

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