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Relaxation labelling

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJul 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ7310863 ↗
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Relaxation labelling is an image treatment methodology. Its goal is to associate a label to the pixels of a given image or nodes of a given graph.

See also

Digital image processing

References

Further reading

Marcello Pelillo (1997). "The dynamics of nonlinear relaxation labeling processes". Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision. 7 (4): 309–323. doi:10.1023/A:1008255111261. S2CID 16789724. (Full text: [1])

Kuner, Peter; Ueberreiter, Birgit (1988). "Pattern Recognition by Graph Matching – Combinatorial Versus Continuous Optimization".

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