The mixture of K-Optimal-Spanning-Trees based probability approximation: Application to skin detection

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1574-1590

  El Fkihi, Sanaa ^a,b   Daoudi, Mohamed ^a   Aboutajdine, Driss ^b  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE   (France)

^b MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Dependency tree; Mixture of trees; Optimal Spanning Tree; Probability mixture; Skin detection

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MIXTURES; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

DEPENDENCY TREE; MIXTURE OF TREES; OPTIMAL-SPANNING-TREE; PROBABILITY MIXTURE; SKIN DETECTION;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 53249115412     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2008.02.003     Document Type: Article

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