Quantum mechanics in computer vision: Automatic object extraction

2013 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2013 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2489-2493

  Aytekin, Çaǧlar ^a   Kiranyaz, Serkan ^b   Gabbouj, Moncef ^b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

image segmentation; Object extraction; quantum mechanics; Schr dinger's equation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MECHANICS; QUANTUM THEORY; TEXTURES;

INTENSITY UNIFORMITIES; MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE; MODEL COMPLEXES; OBJECT BOUNDARIES; OBJECT EXTRACTION; REGULARIZATION ENERGY; SEGMENTATION METHODS; TEXTURE INFORMATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84897749438     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2013.6738513     Document Type: Conference Paper

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