Image segmentation by a robust Modified Gaussian Mixture Model

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1478-1482

  Zhang, Hui ^a,b   Wu, Q M Jonathan ^b   Nguyen, Thanh Minh ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; DETERMINATION OF PARAMETERS; EFFECTIVE ALGORITHMS; FINITE MIXTURE MODELING; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; HIDDEN MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; INTENSITY INFORMATION; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PIXELS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84890533440     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6637897     Document Type: Conference Paper

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