Characteristics of Natural Scenes Related to the Fractal Dimension

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn PAMI-9, Issue 5, 1987, Pages 621-627

  Keller, James M ^a   Crownover, Richard M ^a   Chen, Robert Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Average Holder constant; fractal dimension; fractional Brownian motion; scene characteristics; shape description

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939740393     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.1987.4767956     Document Type: Article

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