Generalizing edge detection to contour detection for image segmentation

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 731-744

  Wang, Hongzhi ^a   Oliensis, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Perceptual organization

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION;

CONTOUR DETECTION; IMAGE BRIGHTNESS; IMAGE PARTITION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION; SALIENT CONTOURS; SCALE DISTRIBUTIONS; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 79960466309     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2010.02.001     Document Type: Article

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