Fast texture energy based image segmentation using Directional Walsh-Hadamard Transform and parametric active contour models

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 11722-11729

  Vard, Alireza ^a   Monadjemi, Amirhassan ^a   Jamshidi, Kamal ^a   Movahhedinia, Naser ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Active contour models; Directional Walsh Hadamard Transform (DWHT); Energy function; Segmentation; Texture features

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; DIRECTIONAL WALSH-HADAMARD TRANSFORM (DWHT); ENERGY FUNCTION; SEGMENTATION; TEXTURE FEATURES;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER VISION; TEXTURES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 79955576124     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.03.058     Document Type: Article

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