Embedding diffusion in variational Bayes: A technique for segmenting images

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 811-827

  Boccignone, Giuseppe ^a   Napoletano, Paolo ^a   Ferraro, Mario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diffusion equation; Image segmentation; Model selection; Variational Bayes

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; LABELING; LABELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

DIFFUSION EQUATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MODEL SELECTION; VARIATIONAL BAYES;

VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 51449114290     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001408006533     Document Type: Article

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