Image segmentation based on adaptive cluster prototype estimation

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 444-453

  Liew, Alan Wee Chung ^a,b   Yan, Hong ^a,c   Law, Ngai Fong ^d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Fuzzy clustering; Image segmentation; Prototype adaptation; Spatial continuity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; ITERATIVE METHODS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VECTORS;

FUZZY CLUSTERING; ITERATIVE OPTIMIZATION; PROTOTYPE ADAPTATION; SPATIAL CONTINUITY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 26844546953     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2004.841748     Document Type: Article

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