Automatic seeded region growing for color image segmentation

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 877-886

  Shih, Frank Y ^a   Cheng, Shouxian ^a  

^a New Jersey Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Color image processing; Image segmentation; Region merging; Seeded region growing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHOTODETECTORS; TEXTURES;

COLOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION; HISTOGRAMS; REGION-MERGING; SEEDED REGION GROWING (SRG);

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 23844459230     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2005.05.015     Document Type: Article

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