Statistics and category systems for the shape index descriptor of local 2nd order natural image structure

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 771-781

  Lillholm, Martin ^a   Griffin, Lewis D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Image features; Local image structure; Natural image statistics

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

CATEGORY SYSTEMS; DESCRIPTOR; IMAGE FEATURES; LOCAL IMAGE STRUCTURE; NATURAL IMAGE STATISTICS; NATURAL IMAGES; ORDER STRUCTURES; PARAMETERISATION; PRINCIPAL DIRECTIONS; SHAPE INDICES; TWO PARAMETERS;

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS;

EID: 63449101369     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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