Paper Info
Title
Texture and color segmentation based on the combined use of the structure tensor and the image components
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a novel segmentation scheme for textured gray-level and color images based on the combined use of the local structure tensor and the original image components. The structure tensor is a well-established tool for image segmentation and has been successfully employed for unsupervised segmentation of textured gray-level and color images. The original image components can also provide very useful information. Therefore, a combined segmentation approach has been designed that combines both elements within a common energy minimization framework. Besides, an original method is proposed to dynamically adapt the relative weight of these two pieces of information. Quantitative experimental results on a large number of gray-level and color images show the improved performance of the proposed approach, in comparison to several related approaches in recent studies. Experiments have also been carried out on real world images in order to validate the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.sigpro.2007.09.019
Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
combined segmentation approach,original method,color segmentation,combined use,novel segmentation scheme,original image component,color image,unsupervised segmentation,structure tensor,textured gray-level,image segmentation,kullback leibler distance,energy minimization,level set
Computer vision,Scale-space segmentation,Segmentation,Image texture,Image processing,Segmentation-based object categorization,Image segmentation,Structure tensor,Artificial intelligence,Mathematics,Color image
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
88
4
Signal Processing
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
26
1.07
53
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rodrigo de Luis-García115014.15
Rachid Deriche24903633.65
Carlos Alberola-López348252.95