THE UNIFORM DECOMPOSITION - Properties and Applications

Franklin César Flores, Airton Marco Polidorio

2012

Abstract

The uniform decomposition is an hierarchical segmentation method which main property is the preservation of a given characteristic for each subset of the partition provided by the decomposition. Its computation is incremental and, in each iteration, a candidate region is split only if it is found a valid split where each new subset respects an input criterion, for instance size or shape. This paper discusses some properties of the uniform decomposition and proposes several applications for this decomposition such as hierarchical segmentation, stereo vision pre-processing and interactive segmentation.

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César Flores F. and Marco Polidorio A. (2012). THE UNIFORM DECOMPOSITION - Properties and Applications . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-03-7, pages 498-504. DOI: 10.5220/0003870304980504


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@conference{visapp12,
author={Franklin César Flores and Airton Marco Polidorio},
title={THE UNIFORM DECOMPOSITION - Properties and Applications},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={498-504},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003870304980504},
isbn={978-989-8565-03-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)
TI - THE UNIFORM DECOMPOSITION - Properties and Applications
SN - 978-989-8565-03-7
AU - César Flores F.
AU - Marco Polidorio A.
PY - 2012
SP - 498
EP - 504
DO - 10.5220/0003870304980504