A novel approach to the detection of small objects with low contrast

Signal Processing

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-83

  Hsieh, Feng Yang ^a   Han, Chin Chuan ^b   Wu, Nai Shen ^a   Chuang, Thomas C ^c   Fan, Kuo Chin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL UNITED UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c VANUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Image differencing; Object detection; Region matching; Watershed segmentation

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; VIDEO CAMERAS; WATERSHEDS;

IMAGE DIFFERENCING; OBJECT DETECTION; REGION MATCHING; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 27944459733     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2005.03.020     Document Type: Article

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