Image feature localization by multiple hypothesis testing of Gabor features

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 311-325

  Ilonen, Jarmo ^a   Kamarainen, Joni Kristian ^a   Paalanen, Pekka ^a   Hamouz, Miroslav ^b   Kittler, Josef ^b   Kälviäinen, Heikki ^a  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Feature detection; Gabor feature; Gaussian mixture model; Local descriptor

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECOGNITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS; OPTICAL ROTATION;

FEATURE DETECTION; GABOR FEATURE; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; LOCAL DESCRIPTOR;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

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

EID: 40749141980     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2007.916052     Document Type: Article

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