A novel unsupervised approach for multilevel image clustering from unordered image collection

Frontiers of Computer Science

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 69-82

  Kang, Lai ^a,c   Wu, Lingda ^a,b   Yang, Yee Hong ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b ACADEMY OF EQUIPMENT COMMAND AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

imaging sample space (ISS); multilevel image clustering; unordered image collection

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY;

DISSIMILARITY MEASURES; IMAGE CAPTURING; IMAGE CLUSTERING; IMAGE COLLECTIONS; MULTI-VIEW IMAGE; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; SAMPLE SPACE; UNSUPERVISED APPROACHES;

BINARY SEQUENCES;

EID: 84875592452     PISSN: 20952228     EISSN: 20952236     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11704-013-1266-8     Document Type: Article

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