Regularized tree partitioning and its application to unsupervised image segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1909-1922

  Wang, Jingdong ^a   Jiang, Huaizu ^b   Jia, Yangqing ^c   Hua, Xian Sheng ^a   Zhang, Changshui ^d   Quan, Long ^e  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

graph partitioning; Grouping; image segmentation; regularized tree partitioning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS;

GRAPH PARTITIONING; GROUPING; ITS APPLICATIONS; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; SEGMENTATION DATA; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; TREE PARTITIONING; UNSUPERVISED IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FACE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FACE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84896902531     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2014.2307479     Document Type: Article

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