Design and performance analysis of oriented feature detectors

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Ayres, Fábio J ^a   Rangayyan, Rangaraj M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GABOR FILTERS; ORIENTED FEATURE DETECTORS; STEERABLE FILTER;

DIGITAL FILTERS; DISPLAY DEVICES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34548057768     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2728751     Document Type: Article

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