On improving the efficiency of tensor voting

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2215-2228

  Moreno, Rodrigo ^a,b   Garcia, Miguel Angel ^c   Puig, Domenec ^d   Pizarro, Luis ^e   Burgeth, Bernhard ^f   Weickert, Joachim ^f  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

^f SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

curveness and junctionness propagation; nonlinear approximation; perceptual grouping; Perceptual methods; tensor voting

Indexed keywords

IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; NEW PARAMETERS; NOISY DATA; NONLINEAR APPROXIMATION; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; PERCEPTUAL GROUPING; PERCEPTUAL METHODS; PLATE COMPONENTS; TENSOR VOTING; VOTING PROCESS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; SPHERES;

TENSORS;

EID: 80052966525     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2011.23     Document Type: Article

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