An evaluation metric for image segmentation of multiple objects

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1223-1227

  Polak, Mark ^a   Zhang, Hong ^a   Pi, Minghong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Error measure; Evaluation; Image segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE;

ERROR MEASURE; ERROR MEASURES; EVALUATION; EVALUATION METRIC; IMAGE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; MULTIPLE OBJECTS; OVER SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTED IMAGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 67349252469     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2008.09.008     Document Type: Article

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