Unsupervised watershed-driven region-based image retrieval

IEE Proceedings: Vision, Image and Signal Processing

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 313-322

  Pratikakis, I ^a   Vanhamel, I ^b   Sahli, H ^b   Gatos, B ^a   Perantonis, S J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN MATCHING; WATERSHEDS;

FEATURE DISCRIMINATION; SEGMENTATION PROCEDURE; SIMILARITY METRIC;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33646689596     PISSN: 1350245X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-vis:20050061     Document Type: Article

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