Kernel density estimation basedmultiphase fuzzy region competition method for texture image segmentation

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 623-641

  Li, Fang ^a   Ng, Michael K ^b  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Fuzzy membership function; Kernel density estimation; Multiphase region competition; Texture; Total variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952677675     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: 19917120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4208/cicp.160609.311209a     Document Type: Article

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