A morphological gradient approach to color edge detection

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1454-1463

  Evans, Adrian N ^a   Liu, Xin U ^a,b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Color image processing; Edge detection; Morphological operations

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; MORPHOLOGY; VECTOR QUANTIZATION; VECTORS;

COLOR EDGE DETECTION; MORPHOLOGICAL GRADIENT; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; SCALAR-VALUED IMAGES; VECTOR-VALUED IMAGES;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 33646863860     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2005.864164     Document Type: Article

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