Behavior of the Laplacian of Gaussian extrema

Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 107-128

  Tabbone, Salvatore A ^a   Alonso, Laurent ^a   Ziou, Djemel ^b  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gaussian filtering; Laplacian extrema; Scale space

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VECTORS;

GAUSSIAN FILTERING; INTENSITY FUNCTIONS; LAPLACIAN EXTREMA; SCALE SPACE;

LAPLACE TRANSFORMS;

EID: 17444432578     PISSN: 09249907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10851-005-4970-7     Document Type: Article

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