A soft unsupervised two-phase image segmentation model based on global probability density functions

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1687-1692

  Pereira Borges, Vinicius R ^a   Batista, Marcos A ^b   Barcelos, Celia A Zorzo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Fuzzy Region Competition; Gaussian distribution; probability density function; unsupervised image segmentation; Variational methods

Indexed keywords

FUZZY REGION; GAUSSIANS; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; UNSUPERVISED IMAGE SEGMENTATION; VARIATIONAL METHODS;

CYBERNETICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 83755194983     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2011.6083914     Document Type: Conference Paper

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