A survey of graph theoretical approaches to image segmentation

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1020-1038

  Peng, Bo ^a,b   Zhang, Lei ^b   Zhang, David ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Graph cut; Graph theoretical methods; Image segmentation; Minimal spanning tree

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; GRAPH THEORY; GRAPHIC METHODS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SURVEYS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

GRAPH CUT; GRAPH THEORETICAL APPROACH; INTERACTIVE SEGMENTATION METHODS; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODEL; MINIMAL SPANNING TREE; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; THEORETICAL METHODS; VARIATION OF INFORMATIONS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84870239407     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2012.09.015     Document Type: Article

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