Size-density spectra and their application to image classification

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3336-3348

  Zingman, Igor ^a   Meir, Ron ^a   El Yaniv, Ran ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Algebraic opening; Density opening; Image classification; Pattern density spectrum; Pattern size spectrum; Pattern size density spectrum; Rank max opening; Size density signature; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; MEDICAL IMAGING; ROBUST CONTROL; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ALGEBRAIC OPENING; BLOB ARRANGEMENT; DENSITY OPENING OPERATOR;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 34547678381     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2007.05.007     Document Type: Article

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