Iterative relative fuzzy connectedness for multiple objects with multiple seeds

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 160-182

  Ciesielski, Krzysztof Chris ^a   Udupa, Jayaram K ^b   Saha, Punam K ^b   Zhuge, Ying ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzzy connectedness; Image segmentation; Path connectedness; Path strength

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS;

FUZZY CONNECTEDNESS; OBJECT DEFINITION; PATH CONNECTEDNESS; PATH STRENGTH;

FUZZY SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547517190     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2006.10.005     Document Type: Article

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