Geodesics on the manifold of multivariate generalized Gaussian distributions with an application to multicomponent texture discrimination

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 265-286

  Verdoolaege, Geert ^a   Scheunders, Paul ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Geodesic distance; Multicomponent images; Multivariate generalized Gaussian distribution; Texture discrimination

Indexed keywords

ADEQUATE MODELS; CLASSIFICATION EFFICIENCY; COLOR TEXTURES; COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; CORRELATION STRUCTURE; FISHER INFORMATION; GENERALIZED GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTIONS; GENERALIZED GAUSSIAN MODELS; GEODESIC DISTANCES; HEAVY-TAILED; INTER-BAND CORRELATION; KULLBACK-LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; MULTICOMPONENT IMAGES; MULTICOMPONENTS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SPECTRAL BAND; TEXTURE DISCRIMINATION; VARIABLE SHAPE; WAVELET DOMAIN; WAVELET STATISTICS;

FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; GEODESY; TEXTURES; WAVE FILTERS;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 80052941674     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: 15731405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11263-011-0448-9     Document Type: Article

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