Image segmentation based on merging of sub-optimal segmentations

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1105-1116

  Pichel, Juan C ^a   Singh, David E ^a   Rivera, Francisco F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Region merging heuristic; Segmentation; Segmentation evaluation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FUNCTIONS; HEURISTIC METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

REGION-MERGING HEURISTIC; SEGMENTATION EVALUATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33646259498     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2005.12.012     Document Type: Article

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