Flotation bubble image segmentation based on seed region boundary growing

Mining Science and Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 239-242

  Guoying, Zhang ^a   Hong, Zhu ^a   Ning, Xu ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Beijing General Research Institute of Mine and Metallurgy   (China)

Author keywords

Bubble image; Region growing; Seed area; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY GROWING; BUBBLE IMAGE; FLOTATION BUBBLES; REGION BOUNDARIES; REGION GROWING; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; WATER-SHED ALGORITHM;

FROTH FLOTATION; SEED;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 79958698081     PISSN: 16745264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mstc.2011.02.013     Document Type: Article

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