What are textons?

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 62, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 121-143

  Zhu, Song Chun ^a   Guo, Cheng En ^a   Wang, Yizhou ^a   Xu, Zijian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTOMETRY; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

HUMAN VISUAL PERCEPTION; NATURAL IMAGES; PHYSICS CONCEPTS; TEXTONS;

TEXTURES;

EID: 8644227753     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:VISI.0000046592.70770.61     Document Type: Article

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