On the extraction of curve skeletons using gradient vector flow

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hassouna, M Sabry ^a   Farag, Aly A ^a  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER VISION; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; GRADIENT METHODS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; VECTORS;

CURVE SKELETONS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 50649121875     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCV.2007.4409112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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