Application of the Hough transform for the automatic determination of soot aggregate morphology

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 610-620

  Grishin, Igor ^a   Thomson, Kevin ^b   Migliorini, Francesca ^b   Sloan, James J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; SOOT;

AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION; AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; HIGH-RESOLUTION TEM; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; ITS APPLICATIONS; PRIMARY PARTICLES; TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SOOT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PARTICLE SIZE; SOOT;

EID: 84856915032     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.000610     Document Type: Article

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