Perceptual segmentation: Combining image segmentation with object tagging

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1668-1681

  Bergman, Ruth ^a   Nachlieli, Hila ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Image analysis; image segmentation; image tagging; perceptual segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TAGGING; COLOR HISTOGRAM; DESCRIPTORS; HUMAN OBSERVERS; IMAGE ARCHIVES; IMAGE CONTENT; IMAGE TAGGING; IMAGE-BASED; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; IMPORTANT OBJECT; LOW LEVEL DESCRIPTORS; MAIN OBJECTS; NOISE LEVELS; PERCEPTUAL OBJECTS; PERCEPTUAL SEGMENTATION; PHOTO ALBUM; SLIDE SHOWS;

COLOR; IMAGE QUALITY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DOCUMENTATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DOCUMENTATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79957493524     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2010.2088970     Document Type: Article

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