Two frontiers in morphological image analysis: Differential evolution models and hybrid morphological/linear neural networks

Proceedings - SIBGRAPI 1998: International Symposium on Computer Graphics, Image Processing, and Vision

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 10-17

  Maragos, P ^a,b   Akmal Butt, M ^a   Pessoa, L F C ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING   (Greece)

^c MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

character recognition; curve evolution; differential morphology; neural nets; PDEs

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

CURVE EVOLUTION; HAND WRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION; MORPHOLOGICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGICAL MULTISCALE; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; MULTILAYER FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (PDES); PDES;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 55249101541     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIBGRA.1998.722726     Document Type: Conference Paper

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