Category-specific object recognition and segmentation using a skeletal shape model

British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC 2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Trinh, Nhon H ^a   Kimia, Benjamin B ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

CATEGORY SPECIFICS; EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE; MULTIPLE INSTANCES; OBJECT CATEGORIES; RANK ORDERING; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SEGMENTED IMAGES; SKELETAL MODELS;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 84898899967     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5244/C.23.6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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