Image enhancement-an emergent pattern formation approach via decentralised multi-agent systems

Multiagent and Grid Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 105-140

  Jones, Jeff ^a   Saeed, Mohammed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emergent pattern formation; Image processing; Multi agent system; Selection pressure

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOBILE AGENTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES; IMAGE FEATURE EXTRACTIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING FUNCTIONS; LANDSCAPE CONFIGURATION; MULTIAGENT FRAMEWORK; PARALLEL INTERACTIONS; PATTERN FORMATION; SELECTION PRESSURES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 85006320949     PISSN: 15741702     EISSN: 18759076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/MGS-2007-3108     Document Type: Article

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