Color reduction and estimation of the number of dominant colors by using a self-growing and self-organized neural gas

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 769-786

  Atsalakis, Antonios ^a   Papamarkos, Nikos ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Color quantization; Color reduction; Neural networks; Segmentation; Self organized

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; TOPOLOGY;

COLOR QUANTIZATION; COLOR REDUCTION; ESTIMATION OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CLASSES (EMIC); NEURAL LATTICES;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 33749245262     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2006.05.004     Document Type: Article

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