Soft color segmentation and its applications

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1520-1537

  Tai, Yu Wing ^a   Jia, Jiaya ^b   Tang, Chi Keung ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Color image segmentation; Image synthesis

Indexed keywords

COLOR; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PIXELS; RELIABILITY THEORY; STATISTICS;

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; LOCAL COLOR MIXTURE MODEL; SOFT COLOR SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34548128380     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.1168     Document Type: Article

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