Focus-of-attention from local color symmetries

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 817-830

  Heidemann, Gunther ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Color vision; Focus of attention; Object recognition; Saliency maps; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR VISION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

FOCUS OF ATTENTION; SALIENCY MAPS; SYMMETRY;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ATTENTION; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOMIMETICS; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; VISION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ATTENTION; BIOMIMETICS; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 2342595304     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2004.29     Document Type: Article

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