A family of shape ellipticity measures for galaxy classification

SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 765-781

  Aktaş, Mehmet Ali ^a   Žunić, Joviša ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Ellipticity measure; Image processing; Object classification; Shape

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION RATES; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; ELLIPTICITY MEASURE; MUTUALLY INDEPENDENTS; NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFIER; OBJECT CLASSIFICATION; SCALING TRANSFORMATION; SHAPE;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

GALAXIES;

EID: 84879952900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19364954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/120866026     Document Type: Article

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