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• [P61] A Novel Vector-Field Transform for Image Analysis Inspired by Electrostatics
  Author(s): Xiao-dong Zhuang, Hui Zhu
  
  

  Abstract
  A novel vector field transform is proposed for gray-scale image based on the electro-static analogy. By introducing the item of gray-scale difference into the virtual repulsive force between image points, the diffusing vector field is obtained by the transform. The primitive areas can be extracted based on the diffusing vector field with a proposed area-expanding method. A novel image segmentation method is then presented by merging primitive areas. The experimental results prove the effectiveness of the proposed image segmentation method.

  
   

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