Spatially coherent fuzzy clustering for accurate and noise-robust image segmentation

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 295-298

  Despotovíć, Ivana ^a   Vansteenkiste, Ewout ^a   Philips, Wilfried ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; fuzzy c means; fuzzy clustering; image segmentation; phase congruency; spatial information

Indexed keywords

EFFECT OF NOISE; FUZZY C MEAN; IMAGE SMOOTHING; LOCAL IMAGE FEATURES; PHASE CONGRUENCY; REAL IMAGES; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS;

ANISOTROPY; FUZZY CLUSTERING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84873906348     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2013.2244080     Document Type: Article

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