Improved watershed segmentation using water diffusion and local shape priors

Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 985-993

  Nguyen, Hieu T ^a   Ji, Qiang ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DERIVATIVES; IMAGE NOISE; OBJECT BOUNDARIES; WATER DIFFUSION;

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; WATER;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33845571109     PISSN: 10636919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2006.149     Document Type: Conference Paper

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