Background removal of multiview images by learning shape priors

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2607-2616

  Tsai, Yu Pao ^a,b   Ko, Cheng Hung ^c   Hung, Yi Ping ^b,c   Shih, Zen Chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

3 D modeling; Graph cut; Image segmentation; Markov random field (MRF); Medial axis; Multiview images (MVIs); Object movie; Volumetric graph cuts

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DISCRETE MEDIAL AXIS; GRAPH CUT; MULTIVIEW IMAGE;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 34648823456     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2007.904465     Document Type: Article

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