Watershed segmentation with boundary curvature ratio based merging criterion

Proceedings of the 9th IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing, SIP 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 7-12

  He, Xiaochen ^a   Yung, Nelson H C ^a   Chow, K P ^a   Chin, Francis Y L ^a   Chung, Ronald H Y ^b   Wong, K Y K ^a   Tsang, Kenneth S H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Verint Systems (Asia Pacific) Ltd   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Boundary smoothness; Merging criterion; Optimal number of segments; Watershed segmentation

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; LANDFORMS; MERGING; WATERSHEDS; WAVEGUIDES;

BOUNDARY CURVATURES; BOUNDARY SMOOTHNESS; BOUNDARY SMOOTHNESSES; OPTIMAL NUMBER OF SEGMENTS; OPTIMAL NUMBERS; REGION HOMOGENEITIES; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SMOOTH BOUNDARIES; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; WATERSHED SEGMENTATIONS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 56149103773     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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