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Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 857210, 7 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/857210
Research Article

Entropy-Based Maximally Stable Extremal Regions for Robust Feature Detection

Huiwen Cai,1 Xiaoyan Wang,2 Ming Xia,2 and Yangsheng Wang1

1Digital Interactive Media Laboratory, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
2College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China

Received 25 August 2012; Accepted 2 October 2012

Academic Editor: Sheng-yong Chen

Copyright © 2012 Huiwen Cai et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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