Minimal weighted local variance as edge detector for active contour models

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3851 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 622-632

  Law, W K ^a   Chung, Albert C S ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; EDGE DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

BLURRY EDGES; CONTOUR LEAKAGE; LOW CONTRAST BOUNDARIES; MINIMAL WEIGHTED LOCAL VARIANCE;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33744958803     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11612032_63     Document Type: Conference Paper

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