Boosting color saliency in image feature detection

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 150-156

  Van De Weijer, Joost ^a   Gevers, Theo ^b   Bagdanov, Andrew D ^c  

^a GRAVIR INRIA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Color imaging; Feature detection; Image saliency; Image statistics

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECOGNITION; LUMINANCE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COLOR IMAGE DERIVATIVES; FEATURE DETECTION; FEATURE DETECTORS; IMAGE STATISTICS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33644829971     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2006.3     Document Type: Article

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