An efficient earth mover's distance algorithm for robust histogram comparison

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 840-853

  Ling, Haibin ^a   Okada, Kazunori ^b  

^a University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth Mover's Distance; Histogram based descriptor; Interest point matching; Shape context; Shape matching; SIFT; Spin image; Transportation problem

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECOGNITION; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION;

EARTH MOVER'S DISTANCE (EMD) ALGORITHM; ROBUST HISTOGRAM; SHAPE CONTEXT; SHAPE MATCHING; SPIN IMAGE;

IMAGE MATCHING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 34047206555     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.1058     Document Type: Article

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