An improved box-counting method for image fractal dimension estimation

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2460-2469

  Li, Jian ^a   Du, Qian ^b   Sun, Caixin ^a  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Box counting dimension; Fractal dimension; Fractional Brownian motion; Remote sensing image; Texture image

Indexed keywords

BOX-COUNTING; BOX-COUNTING DIMENSION; BOX-COUNTING METHOD; FRACTAL DIMENSION ESTIMATION; FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION; GRAPHIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE SURFACE; NEW MODEL; REMOTE SENSING IMAGE; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; SHAPE CLASSIFICATION; TEXTURE IMAGE; TEXTURE SEGMENTATION;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; REMOTE SENSING; TEXTURES;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

EID: 67649407362     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2009.03.001     Document Type: Article

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