Fuzzy spatial relation ontology for image interpretation

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Volumn 159, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 1929-1951

  Hudelot, Céline ^a   Atif, Jamal ^a   Bloch, Isabelle ^a  

^a INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

Author keywords

Fuzzy representations; Image interpretation; Ontology; Semantic gap; Spatial relations

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

FUZZY REPRESENTATIONS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION; SEMANTIC GAP; SPATIAL RELATIONS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 44549086669     PISSN: 01650114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fss.2008.02.011     Document Type: Article

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