Region saliency as a measure for colour segmentation stability

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 211-227

  Heidemann, Gunther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Colour segmentation; Saliency; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LIGHTING; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

COLOUR SEGMENTATION; CONTEXT-FREE OPTIMIZATION; FUNCTIONAL PRINCIPLE; SEGMENTATION PARAMETERS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 35848929050     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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