Vision-based hexagonal image processing using Hex-Gabor

Signal, Image and Video Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 317-326

  Veni, S ^a   Narayanankutty, K A ^a  

^a AMRITA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Hex Gabor filter; Hexagonal image processing; Image enhancement; Interpolation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERPOLATION; TEXTURES;

HEXAGONAL IMAGE PROCESSING; HEXAGONAL STRUCTURES; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; RECEPTIVE FIELDS; RECTANGULAR STRUCTURE; TEXTURE INFORMATION; VISION SYSTEMS; VISUAL SYSTEMS;

GABOR FILTERS;

EID: 84892868180     PISSN: 18631703     EISSN: 18631711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11760-012-0293-5     Document Type: Article

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