Multiregion competition: A level set extension of region competition to multiple region image partitioning

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 137-150

  Mansouri, Abdol Reza ^a   Mitiche, Amar ^b   Vázquez, Carlos ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Curve evolution equations; Image segmentation; Image sequence analysis; Level set evolution equations; Motion segmentation; Region competition

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ALGORITHMS; COLOR; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

CURVE EVOLUTION EQUATIONS; IMAGE SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; LEVEL SET EVOLUTION EQUATIONS; MOTION SEGMENTATION; REGION COMPETITION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 28844450823     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2005.07.008     Document Type: Article

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