Morphological corner detector using paired triangular structuring elements

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1087-1098

  Sobania, Alina ^a   Evans, J Paul O ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corner detection; Dual energy X ray; Feature extraction; Mathematical morphology; Stereoscopic

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; X RAYS;

CORNER DETECTION; DUAL-ENERGY X-RAY; STEREOSCOPIC; X-RAY IMAGES;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 17444402876     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2004.10.009     Document Type: Article

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