A note on the iterative object symmetry transform

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1533-1545

  Di Gesù, Vito ^a,b   Zavidovique, Bertrand ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Image classification; Mathematical morphology; Symmetry transforms

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SET THEORY;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; SMOOTHED LOCAL SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY TRANSFORMS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 4644313616     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2004.03.017     Document Type: Article

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