A modified edge-based region growing segmentation of geometric objects

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7066 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2011, Pages 99-112

  Jamil, Nursuriati ^a   Soh, Hazwani Che ^a   Tengku Sembok, Tengku Mohd ^b   Bakar, Zainab Abu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

edge detection; geometric objects; Image segmentation; region growing; songket; Visual Informatics

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION METHODS; EDGE DETECTORS; EDGE INFORMATION; EDGE METHOD; EDGE-BASED; EDGE-BASED TECHNIQUE; GEOMETRIC OBJECTS; LOW CONTRAST; PATTERN IMAGES; REGION GROWING; SEED PIXEL; SONGKET; TECHNIQUES USED; VISUAL INFORMATICS;

DETECTORS; EDGE DETECTION; GEOMETRY; INFORMATION USE;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 81255193933     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25191-7_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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