Multiscale Image Segmentation Using Active Contours

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Multiscale Image Segmentation Using Active Contours

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A Posteriori Quantization of Progressive Matching Pursuit Streams

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Cast Shadow Recognition in Color Images

Multigrid Image Reconstruction from Arbitrarily Spaced Samples

Location Based Speaker Segmentation

An Exact Method for Computing the Area Moments of Wavelet and Spline Curves

Extension of the Complex Torque Coefficient Method for Synchronous Generators to Auxiliary Devices in Electrical Networks.

Automated Segmentation of the Corpus Callosum in Midsagittal Brain Magnetic Resonance Images