Color binarization for complex camera-based images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5667, Issue , 2005, Pages 301-308

  Thillou, Celine ^a   Gosselin, Bernard ^a  

^a FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Classifiers; Color Clustering; Complex Background; K means; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; CLASSIFIERS; COLOR; CONSTRAINT THEORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COLOR CLUSTERING; COMPLEX BACKGROUND; K-MEANS; THRESHOLDING;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 21944432339     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.586618     Document Type: Conference Paper

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