Unsupervised video segmentation with low depth of field

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1742-1751

  Li, Hongliang ^a,b   Ngan, King N ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Adaptive error control matting; Bilateral filter; Low depth of field; Video segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ERROR CONTROL MATTING; BILATERAL FILTER; VIDEO SEGMENTATION;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 36549048864     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2007.903326     Document Type: Article

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