Scale-invariant medial features based on gradient vector flow fields

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Engel, David ^a   Curio, Cristóbal ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY);

BACKGROUND CLUTTER; EDGE-BASED FEATURE DETECTORS; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW FIELDS; LEARNING FRAMEWORKS; ORIENTATION INFORMATION; PEDESTRIAN DETECTION; SCALE INVARIANT FEATURES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 77957956530     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icpr.2008.4761373     Document Type: Conference Paper

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