Automatic seeded region growing based on gradient vector flow for color image segmentation

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  He, Yuan ^a   Luo, Yupin ^a   Hu, Dongcheng ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Color image processing; Gradient vector flow; Image segmentation; Region merging; Seeded region growing

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY;

GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; REGION MERGING; SEEDED REGION GROWING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 34250729801     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2724876     Document Type: Article

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