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Image recognition is the need of the hour. In order to be able to recognize an image, it is of immense importance that the image should be distinguishable from the background. In the present work, an approach is presented for automatic…
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We propose an unsupervised image segmentation approach, that combines a variational energy functional and deep convolutional neural networks. The variational part is based on a recent multichannel multiphase Chan-Vese model, which is…
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