Multifractal signature estimation for textured image segmentation

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 163-169

  Xia, Yong ^a,b,c   Feng, Dagan ^a,c   Zhao, Rongchun ^b   Zhang, Yanning ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Fractal dimension; Image segmentation; Image texture analysis; Mathematical morphology; Multifractal dimensions; Multifractal signature

Indexed keywords

BOX-COUNTING; DESCRIPTORS; DIGITAL IMAGE; FRACTAL FEATURE; FRACTAL MODEL; FRACTAL SIGNATURES; FRACTAL THEORY; IMAGE TEXTURE ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARE FITS; MATHEMATICAL TOOLS; MULTI FRACTALS; MULTI-FRACTAL DIMENSIONS; MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS; MULTIFRACTAL SIGNATURE; ROBUST SEGMENTATION; SPATIAL SCALE; TEXTURE DESCRIPTORS; TEXTURE SEGMENTATION; TEXTURED IMAGES;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FORESTRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; TEXTURES;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

EID: 71549129891     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2009.09.028     Document Type: Article

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