Image classification via object-aware holistic superpixel selection

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4341-4352

  Wang, Zilei ^a,b   Feng, Jiashi ^b   Yan, Shuicheng ^b   Xi, Hongsheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

holistic superpixel selection; Image classification; object aware; region mergence

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK DATASETS; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; CLUTTERED BACKGROUNDS; MATCHING-REGIONS; OBJECT-AWARE; ORIGINAL IMAGES; REGION MERGENCE; SUPER PIXELS;

DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE MATCHING;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84884555373     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2013.2272514     Document Type: Article

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