Region-based image segmentation by watershed partition and dct energy compaction

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-64

  Pun, Chi Man ^a   An, Ning Yu ^a   Chen, C L Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Cosine transform; Energy compaction; Image segmentation; Watershed

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; COSINE TRANSFORMS; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MERGING; WATERSHEDS;

ENERGY COMPACTION; HUMAN SEGMENTATION; HYBRID SEGMENTATION; PREPROCESSING TECHNIQUES; REGION BASED IMAGE SEGMENTATION; STATE OF THE ART; TEXTURE COMPARISON; WATERSHED TRANSFORM;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84865726696     PISSN: 18756891     EISSN: 18756883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18756891.2012.670521     Document Type: Article

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