Aurora image segmentation by combining patch and texture thresholding

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 390-402

  Gao, Xinbo ^a   Fu, Rong ^a   Li, Xuelong ^b   Tao, Dacheng ^c   Zhang, Beichen ^d   Yang, Huigen ^d  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d POLAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Aurora; Feature extraction; Image segmentation; LBP; Otsu; Patch segmentation; Texture segmentation

Indexed keywords

AURORA; LBP; OTSU; PATCH SEGMENTATION; TEXTURE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SEMANTICS; TEXTURES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 79951676055     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2010.11.011     Document Type: Article

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