Image segmentation algorithm of touching rice kernels based on active contour model

Nongye Gongcheng Xuebao/Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 207-211

  Yang, Shuqin ^a,b   Ning, Jifeng ^a   He, Dongjian ^a,b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Research Center for Recycling Agricultural Engineering Technology of Shaanxi Province   (China)

Author keywords

Active contour model; Algorithms; Distance transform; Image processing; Image segmentation; Touching rice kernels; Watershed

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; DILATION OPERATORS; DISTANCE TRANSFORM; DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; GLUTINOUS RICE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; INITIAL CURVE; LOCAL MINIMUMS; RICE KERNELS; SEGMENTATION ACCURACY; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION METHODS;

ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; EDGE DETECTION; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); IMAGING SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; WATERSHEDS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77950555875     PISSN: 10026819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-6819.2010.02.036     Document Type: Article

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