Using covariance matrices for unsupervised texture segmentation

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Donoser, Michael ^a   Bischof, Horst ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TEXTURES;

COLOR SEGMENTATION; COVARIANCE MATRICES; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; LOW-LEVEL FEATURES; STATE OF THE ART; TEXTURE DESCRIPTION; TEXTURE SEGMENTATION; UNSUPERVISED TEXTURE SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77957961182     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icpr.2008.4761350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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