Automatic water eddy detection in SST maps using random ellipse fitting and vectorial fields for image segmentation

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

Volumn 4265 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 77-88

  Fernandes, Armando ^a   Nascimento, Susana ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Optical flow; Random ellipse detection; Water eddy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DEMODULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL FLOWS;

RANDOM ELLIPSE DETECTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE MAPS (SST); VECTORIAL FIELDS; WATER EDDY;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

EID: 33750714116     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11893318_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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