Spatial color image segmentation based on finite non-Gaussian mixture models

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 8993-9001

  Sefidpour, Ali ^a   Bouguila, Nizar ^a  

^a Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Beta Liouville; Color image; Color spaces; Dirichlet; EM algorithm; Generalized Dirichlet; Image segmentation; Mixture model; Spatial information

Indexed keywords

BETA-LIOUVILLE; COLOR IMAGE; COLOR SPACES; DIRICHLET; EM ALGORITHMS; MIXTURE MODEL; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; COLOR;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84859211504     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.02.024     Document Type: Article

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