Fast quasi-flat zones filtering using area threshold and region merging

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 397-409

  Weber, Jonathan ^a   Lefèvre, Sébastien ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Image simplification; Interactive segmentation; Mathematical Morphology; Oversegmentation reduction; Quasi flat zones; Quasi flat zones filtering; Video segmentation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SIMPLIFICATION; INTERACTIVE SEGMENTATION; OVER SEGMENTATION; QUASI-FLAT ZONES; VIDEO SEGMENTATION;

MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84874688992     PISSN: 10473203     EISSN: 10959076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2013.01.011     Document Type: Article

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