Image segmentation by nonlinear filtering of optical Hough transform

Applied Optics

Volumn 55, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 3632-3638

  Fernández, Ariel ^a   Flores, Jorge L ^b   Alonso, Julia R ^a   Ferrari, José A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR FILTERING; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; GEOMETRICAL FEATURES; LOW CONTRAST; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 84966431145     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.55.003632     Document Type: Article

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