Title :
Bhattacharyya probabilistic distance of the Dirichlet density and its application to Split-and-Merge image segmentation
Author :
Rauber, T.W. ; Conci, A. ; Braun, T. ; Berns, K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. de Inf., Univ. Fed. do Espirito Santo, Vitoria
Abstract :
We derive the Bhattacharyya distance between two Dirichlet densities. As an application we use image segmentation by a split-and-merge algorithm.
Keywords :
image segmentation; Bhattacharyya probabilistic distance; Dirichlet density; split-and-merge image segmentation; Application software; Color; Computed tomography; Computer science; Density measurement; Distributed computing; Image segmentation; Pattern recognition; Probability distribution; Robots; Bhattacharyya distance; Dirichlet distribution; Probabilistic distance measures;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Signals and Image Processing, 2008. IWSSIP 2008. 15th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bratislava
Print_ISBN :
978-80-227-2856-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-80-227-2880-5
DOI :
10.1109/IWSSIP.2008.4604388
