Semi-automatic foreground/background segmentation of motion picture images and image sequences

IEE Proceedings: Vision, Image and Signal Processing

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 387-397

  Hillman, P ^a   Hannah, J ^a   Renshaw, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOTION PICTURES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

HUMAN INTERACTIONS; IMAGE SEQUENCES; PICTURE RESOLUTION; RESOLUTION IMAGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 24144443800     PISSN: 1350245X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-vis:20045048     Document Type: Conference Paper

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