Fuzziness index driven fuzzy relaxation algorithm and applications to image processing

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 119-131

  Zhou, Shang Ming ^a   Gan, John Q ^b   Xu, Lida ^c,d   John, Robert I ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzziness index; Fuzzy relaxation; Image enhancement

Indexed keywords

EID: 62949227505     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-008-0363-9     Document Type: Article

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