Extended quantum cuts for unsupervised salient object extraction

Multimedia Tools and Applications

Volumn 76, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 10443-10463

  Aytekin, Çağlar ^a   Ozan, Ezgi Can ^a   Kiranyaz, Serkan ^b   Gabbouj, Moncef ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b Qatar University ^*  (Qatar)

Author keywords

Quantum mechanics; Salient object detection; Schr dinger s equation; Spectral graph theory; Visual saliency

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; QUANTUM THEORY;

CONSTRUCTION SCHEME; FOREGROUND DETECTION; GRAPH REPRESENTATION; MULTI-SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SALIENT OBJECT DETECTION; SALIENT OBJECT EXTRACTIONS; SPECTRAL GRAPH THEORY; VISUAL SALIENCY;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 84961775739     PISSN: 13807501     EISSN: 15737721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11042-016-3431-1     Document Type: Article

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