Efficient image segmentation by mean shift clustering and MDL-guided region merging

Proceedings - International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 337-343

  Luo, Qiming ^a   Khoshgoftaar, Taghi M ^a  

^a Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR DOMAINS; COLOR INFORMATION; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; MINIMUM DESCRIPTION LENGTH (MDL);

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 16244370699     PISSN: 10823409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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