Title
Unsupervised segmentation of natural images based on statistical modeling.
Abstract
A novel unsupervised scheme for natural image segmentation is proposed aiming to acquire perceptually consistent results. Firstly, comprehensive visual features besides raw color values are extracted, including spatial frequency, contrast sensitivity, color deviation, and so on. Secondly, high correlations among visual features are reduced via principal component analysis (PCA) and the raw image pixels are then converted to a collection of feature vectors in a multi-dimensional feature space. Thirdly, the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) is employed to approximate the class distribution of image pixels and an improved expectation maximization (EM) algorithm is introduced to estimate model parameters. Finally, segmentation results are obtained by grouping of pixels based on the mixture components. Experiments are conducted and the results demonstrate that, compared with existing techniques, the proposed scheme can acquire more perceptually consistent results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.neucom.2016.03.117
Neurocomputing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Unsupervised image segmentation,Visual feature,PCA,Statistical modeling,Improved EM algorithm
Scale-space segmentation,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Computer vision,Feature vector,Pattern recognition,Expectation–maximization algorithm,Segmentation,Pixel,Statistical model,Machine learning,Mixture model,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
252
C
0925-2312
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.36
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhu, Z.Q.1273.79
Y. Wang221.04
Gangyi Jiang3865105.98