Artificial ants to extract leaf outlines and primary venation patterns

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5217 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 251-258

  Mullen, Robert J ^a   Monekosso, Dorothy ^a   Barman, Sarah ^a   Remagnino, Paolo ^a   Wilkin, Paul ^b  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; OPTIMIZATION;

ANT ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL ANTS; BACKGROUND NOISES; DIGITAL IMAGES; EDGE DETECTION METHODS; GROUND TRUTHS; IMAGE CHARACTERISTICS; LEAF IMAGES; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSES; STATISTICAL ACCURACIES;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 56449105951     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87527-7_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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