A quantum mechanics-based framework for image processing and its application to image segmentation

Quantum Information Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3613-3638

  Youssry, Akram ^a   El Rafei, Ahmed ^a   Elramly, Salwa ^a  

^a The British University in Egypt   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Image processing; Image segmentation; Quantum inspired algorithms; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MECHANICS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EVOLUTION PROCESS; GENERIC FRAMEWORKS; IMAGE PROCESSING PROBLEMS; MICROSCOPIC SYSTEM; MULTI-OBJECT SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SIGNAL AND IMAGE PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC IMAGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84942373635     PISSN: 15700755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11128-015-1072-3     Document Type: Article

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