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Shape-based averaging

Torsten Rohlfing1, Calvin R Maurer

  • 1SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025-3493, USA. torsten@synapse.sri.com

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing : a Publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
|February 8, 2007
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