Describing reflectances for color segmentation robust to shadows, highlights, and textures

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 917-930

  Vazquez, Eduard ^a   Baldrich, Ramon ^a   Van De Weijer, Joost ^a   Vanrell, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

color; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION PARAMETERS; COLOR CONTRAST; COLOR SEGMENTATION; COMPRESSION ARTIFACTS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CREASENESS; DICHROMATIC REFLECTION MODEL; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; IMAGE MEASUREMENTS; IMAGE STATISTICS; INCORPORATING PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; MAIN CHARACTERISTICS; MULTISCALES; REAL-WORLD IMAGE; ROBUST MODELS; SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SPATIAL COHERENCE; SPECULARITIES;

COLOR; DATA COMPRESSION; GRAPHIC METHODS; REFLECTION; TEXTURES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 79953049405     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2010.146     Document Type: Article

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