A split and merge EM algorithm for color image segmentation

Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Intelligent Systems, ICIS 2009

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 395-399

  Li, Yan ^a   Li, Lei ^b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Color image segmentation; EM algorithm; Gaussian mixture model; Model selection; Split and merge operation

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION; EM ALGORITHMS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; MODEL SELECTION; SPLIT-AND-MERGE;

COLOR; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DATA PROCESSING; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; INTELLIGENT COMPUTING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MAGNETOSTRICTIVE DEVICES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXTURES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77949532179     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICICISYS.2009.5357643     Document Type: Conference Paper

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