Title
Unsupervised texture segmentation using a nonlinear energy optimization method
Abstract
A nonlinear functional is considered for segmentation of images containing structural textures. A structural texture pattern in an image is characterized by a certain amplitude spectrum, and segmentation of different patterns is obtained by detecting different regions with different amplitude spectra. A gradient-descent-based algorithm is proposed by deriving equations minimizing the functional. This algorithm, implementing the solutions minimizing the functional, is based on the level set method. An effective method employed in this algorithm is shown to be robust in a noisy environment. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms segmentation obtained by using the simulated annealing algorithm based on Gaussian Markov random fields. (c) 2006 SPIE and IS&T.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1117/1.2234370
JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC IMAGING
Keywords
Field
DocType
algorithms,energy optimization,smoothing
Simulated annealing,Computer vision,Scale-space segmentation,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Level set method,Segmentation,Image texture,Segmentation-based object categorization,Image segmentation,Smoothing,Artificial intelligence
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
3
1017-9909
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
17
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sasan Mahmoodi19417.37
Bayan S. Sharif233647.38