Robust image segmentation with mixtures of student's t-distributions

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sfikas, Giorgos ^a   Nikou, Christophoros ^a   Galatsanos, Nikolaos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Clustering; EM algorithm; Image segmentation; Mixture model; Segmentation evaluation; Student's t distribution

Indexed keywords

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFERENCE ENGINES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXTURES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STUDENTS; TRELLIS CODES; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

CLUSTERING; EM ALGORITHM; GAUSSIAN; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS; MIXTURE MODEL; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OUT-LIERS; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; ROBUST IMAGE SEGMENTATIONS; ROBUST MODELS; SEGMENTATION EVALUATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 48149085386     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2007.4378944     Document Type: Conference Paper

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