Title
A geographical approach to self-organizing maps algorithm applied to image segmentation
Abstract
Image segmentation is one of the most challenging steps in image processing. Its results are used by many other tasks regarding information extraction from images. In remote sensing, segmentation generates regions according to found targets in a satellite image, like roofs, streets, trees, vegetation, agricultural crops, or deforested areas. Such regions differentiate land uses by classification algorithms. In this paper we investigate a way to perform segmentation using a strategy to classify and merge spectrally and spatially similar pixels. For this purpose we use a geographical extension of the Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) algorithm, which exploits the spatial correlation among near pixels. The neurons in the SOM will cluster the objects found in the image, and such objects will define the image segments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-23687-7_15
ACIVS
Keywords
Field
DocType
deforested area,satellite image,self-organizing map,challenging step,agricultural crop,image segment,image processing,classification algorithm,self-organizing maps,regions differentiate land,geographical approach,image segmentation
Scale-space segmentation,Computer science,Segmentation-based object categorization,Image processing,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Minimum spanning tree-based segmentation,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Range segmentation,Segmentation,Image texture,Algorithm
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6915
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thales Sehn Korting12412.47
Leila Maria Garcia Fonseca24717.89
Gilberto Câmara369169.10