Iterated tensor voting and curvature improvement

Signal Processing

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2503-2515

  Fischer, Sylvain ^a   Bayerl, Pierre ^b   Neumann, Heiko ^b   Redondo, Rafael ^a   Cristóbal, Gabriel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contour completion; Contour extraction; Curvature compatibility; Tensor voting

Indexed keywords

CONTOUR COMPLETION; CONTOUR EXTRACTION; CURVATURE COMPATIBILITY; TENSOR VOTING;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COSTS; ITERATIVE METHODS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TELEVISION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 34447266163     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2007.03.019     Document Type: Article

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