Automatic image segmentation by dynamic region growth and multiresolution merging

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2275-2288

  Garcia Ugarriza, Luis ^a   Saber, Eli ^b   Vantaram, Sreenath Rao ^b   Amuso, Vincent ^b   Shaw, Mark ^c   Bhaskar, Ranjit ^c  

^a Zoran Corporation   (United States)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive threshold generation; CIE * a * b *; Color gradient; Entropy; G SEGmentation; Multivariate analysis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLD GENERATION; AUTOMATIC IMAGE SEGMENTATION; COLOR GRADIENT; COLOR GRADIENTS; COLOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION; COLOR IMAGES; COLOR INFORMATION; COLOR QUANTIZATION; COLOR SPACE; COMPUTER VISION APPLICATIONS; DYNAMIC GENERATION; DYNAMIC REGION; G-SEGMENTATION; INPUT IMAGE; LOCAL ENTROPY; MERGING PROCEDURE; MULTI-RESOLUTIONS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGION GROWTH; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; TEXTURE MODELING;

COLOR; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER VISION; DECISION MAKING; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; EDGE DETECTION; ENTROPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MERGING; MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; TEXTURES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70349595044     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2009.2025555     Document Type: Article

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