Edge detection with reaction-diffusion equations having a local average threshold

Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 289-299

  Nomura, A ^a   Ichikawa, M ^b   Sianipar, R H ^a   Miike, H ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADDITION REACTIONS; ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MECHANICS; REACTION KINETICS; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SET THEORY;

BINARIZED IMAGE; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; EDGE DETECTION ALGORITHMS; EDGE POSITIONS; FIXED THRESHOLD; GRAY-SCALE IMAGES; IMAGE BRIGHTNESS; IN ORDER; REACTION-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; TEST IMAGES; THRESHOLD LEVELS;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 45149135356     PISSN: 10546618     EISSN: 15556212     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S1054661808020156     Document Type: Article

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