Fuzzy C-means clustering with local information and kernel metric for image segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 573-584

  Gong, Maoguo ^a   Liang, Yan ^a   Shi, Jiao ^a   Ma, Wenping ^a   Ma, Jingjing ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fuzzy clustering; gray level constraint; image segmentation; kernel metric; spatial constraint

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH SELECTIONS; DATA POINTS; DISTANCE VARIANCES; FUZZY C MEANS CLUSTERING; FUZZY FACTORS; GRAY-LEVEL; IMPROVED FUZZY C-MEANS; KERNEL DISTANCE; KERNEL METRIC; KERNEL PARAMETER; LOCAL INFORMATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; REAL IMAGES; SPACE DISTANCE; SPATIAL CONSTRAINTS;

COMMERCE; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PIXELS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84872242129     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2012.2219547     Document Type: Article

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