Combining wavelets and watersheds for robust multiscale image segmentation

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 24-33

  Jung, Cláudio Rosito ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO RIO DOS SINOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Denoising; Multiresolution; Region merging; Segmentation; Watersheds; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WATERSHEDS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DENOISING; GRADIENT MAGNITUDES; INTENSITY IMAGE; MULTIRESOLUTION; REGION MERGING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33750632553     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2006.01.002     Document Type: Article

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