A simple and effective texture characterization for image segmentation

Signal, Image and Video Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 231-245

  Xu, Tao ^a   Gondra, Iker ^a  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Image; Segmentation; Texture

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; HARALICK FEATURES; IMAGE; LOCAL FEATURE; REAL IMAGES; REPETITIVE PATTERN; SEGMENTATION ACCURACY; SIMPLE RULES; STATISTICAL DESCRIPTORS; TEXTURE CHARACTERIZATIONS; TEXTURE CLASSIFICATION; TEXTURE PATTERNS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TEXTURES;

IMAGE TEXTURE;

EID: 84861455900     PISSN: 18631703     EISSN: 18631711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11760-010-0182-8     Document Type: Article

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