Evaluation of colour image segmentation hierarchies

Third Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, CRV 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 27-

  MacDonald, Darren ^a   Jochen, Lang ^a   McAllister, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Colour images; Earth mover's distance; Evaluation methods; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; IMAGE QUALITY;

COLOUR IMAGES; EARTH MOVER'S DISTANCE (EMD); EVALUATION METHODS; STEREO IMAGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33845372298     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CRV.2006.31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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