Image segmentation with fast wavelet-based color segmenting and directional region growing

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E88-D, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2249-2259

  Chan, Din Yuen ^a   Lin, Chih Hsueh ^b   Hsieh, Wen Shyong ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c SHU TE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Directional region growing; Semantic image segmentation; Texture similarity testing; Wavelet based segmentation

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; ONE DIMENSIONAL; SEMANTICS; TESTING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DIRECTIONAL REGION GROWING; SEMANTIC IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TEXTURE SIMILARITY TESTING; WAVELET-BASED SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33645696335     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e88-d.10.2249     Document Type: Conference Paper

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