A nonsymmetric mixture model for unsupervised image segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 751-765

  Nguyen, Thanh Minh ^a   Wu, Q M Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Expectation maximization (EM) algorithm; Non Gaussian distribution; Nonsymmetric mixture model (NSMM); Unsupervised image segmentation

Indexed keywords

EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; MIXTURE MODEL; NON-GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION PROBLEMS; STUDENT'S T DISTRIBUTION; SYMMETRIC DISTRIBUTIONS; UNSUPERVISED IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHMS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

MIXTURES;

EID: 84888002318     PISSN: 21682267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2215849     Document Type: Article

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