Region-based Deformable Net for automatic color image segmentation

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1504-1514

  Shaaban, Khaled M ^a   Omar, Nagwa M ^a  

^a Assiut University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Deformable contours

Indexed keywords

COLOR; DEFORMATION; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

COLOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION; COLOR IMAGES; DEFORMABLE CONTOURS; DEFORMATION FORCES; DEFORMATION PROCESS; IMAGE CONTENT; MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTATIONS; REGION-BASED; REGION-BASED SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTED REGIONS;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 67349197286     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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