An evaluation of area morphology scale-spaces for colour images

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 32-42

  Gimenez, David ^a   Evans, Adrian N ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colour scale spaces; Image segmentation; Morphological sieves

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MORPHOLOGY; NOISE ABATEMENT; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

BERKELEY SEGMENTATION DATASETS; COLOUR SCALE SPACES; IMAGE NOISE; MORPHOLOGICAL SIEVES;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 40649102172     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

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