This document describes an interactive multi-label image segmentation algorithm called "GrowCut" based on cellular automata. The algorithm can segment N-dimensional images with multiple labels. With modest user input of labeled pixels, GrowCut automatically segments the rest of the image in an iterative process. It requires less user effort than other techniques for moderately difficult images. The algorithm has advantages such as efficiency, parallelizability, and extensibility to generate new segmentation methods.
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research(IJCER)ijceronline
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research(IJCER) is an intentional online Journal in English monthly publishing journal. This Journal publish original research work that contributes significantly to further the scientific knowledge in engineering and Technology
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes an algorithm for detecting brain tumors in MRI images based on analyzing bilateral symmetry. The algorithm first performs preprocessing like smoothing and contrast enhancement. It then identifies the bilateral symmetry axis of the brain. Next, it segments the image into symmetric regions, enhancing asymmetric edges that may indicate a tumor. Experiments showed the algorithm can automatically detect tumor positions and boundaries. The algorithm leverages the fact that brain MRI of a healthy person is nearly bilaterally symmetric, while a tumor disrupts this symmetry.
A Review on Image Segmentation using Clustering and Swarm Optimization Techni...IJSRD
The process of dividing an image into multiple regions (set of pixels) is known as Image segmentation. It will make an image easy and smooth to evaluate. Image segmentation objective is to generate image more simple and meaningful. In this paper present a survey on image segmentation general segmentation techniques, clustering algorithms and optimization methods. Also a study of different research also been presented. The latest research in each of image segmentation methods is presented in this study. This paper presents the recent research in biologically inspired swarm optimization techniques, including ant colony optimization algorithm, particle swarm optimization algorithm, artificial bee colony algorithm and their hybridizations, which are applied in several fields.
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of computer engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in computer technology. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
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A novel predicate for active region merging in automatic image segmentationeSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
1) The document discusses image segmentation in satellite images using optimal texture measures. It evaluates four texture measures from the gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) with six different window sizes.
2) Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is applied to reduce the texture measures to a manageable size while retaining discrimination information.
3) The methodology consists of selecting an optimal window size and optimal texture measure. A 7x7 window size provided superior performance for classification. PCA is used to analyze correlations between texture measures and window sizes.
A NOVEL PROBABILISTIC BASED IMAGE SEGMENTATION MODEL FOR REALTIME HUMAN ACTIV...sipij
Automatic human activity detection is one of the difficult tasks in image segmentation application due to
variations in size, type, shape and location of objects. In the traditional probabilistic graphical
segmentation models, intra and inter region segments may affect the overall segmentation accuracy. Also,
both directed and undirected graphical models such as Markov model, conditional random field have
limitations towards the human activity prediction and heterogeneous relationships. In this paper, we have
studied and proposed a natural solution for automatic human activity segmentation using the enhanced
probabilistic chain graphical model. This system has three main phases, namely activity pre-processing,
iterative threshold based image enhancement and chain graph segmentation algorithm. Experimental
results show that proposed system efficiently detects the human activities at different levels of the action
datasets.
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research(IJCER)ijceronline
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research(IJCER) is an intentional online Journal in English monthly publishing journal. This Journal publish original research work that contributes significantly to further the scientific knowledge in engineering and Technology
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes an algorithm for detecting brain tumors in MRI images based on analyzing bilateral symmetry. The algorithm first performs preprocessing like smoothing and contrast enhancement. It then identifies the bilateral symmetry axis of the brain. Next, it segments the image into symmetric regions, enhancing asymmetric edges that may indicate a tumor. Experiments showed the algorithm can automatically detect tumor positions and boundaries. The algorithm leverages the fact that brain MRI of a healthy person is nearly bilaterally symmetric, while a tumor disrupts this symmetry.
A Review on Image Segmentation using Clustering and Swarm Optimization Techni...IJSRD
The process of dividing an image into multiple regions (set of pixels) is known as Image segmentation. It will make an image easy and smooth to evaluate. Image segmentation objective is to generate image more simple and meaningful. In this paper present a survey on image segmentation general segmentation techniques, clustering algorithms and optimization methods. Also a study of different research also been presented. The latest research in each of image segmentation methods is presented in this study. This paper presents the recent research in biologically inspired swarm optimization techniques, including ant colony optimization algorithm, particle swarm optimization algorithm, artificial bee colony algorithm and their hybridizations, which are applied in several fields.
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of computer engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in computer technology. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
Engineering Research Publication
Best International Journals, High Impact Journals,
International Journal of Engineering & Technical Research
ISSN : 2321-0869 (O) 2454-4698 (P)
www.erpublication.org
A novel predicate for active region merging in automatic image segmentationeSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
1) The document discusses image segmentation in satellite images using optimal texture measures. It evaluates four texture measures from the gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) with six different window sizes.
2) Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is applied to reduce the texture measures to a manageable size while retaining discrimination information.
3) The methodology consists of selecting an optimal window size and optimal texture measure. A 7x7 window size provided superior performance for classification. PCA is used to analyze correlations between texture measures and window sizes.
A NOVEL PROBABILISTIC BASED IMAGE SEGMENTATION MODEL FOR REALTIME HUMAN ACTIV...sipij
Automatic human activity detection is one of the difficult tasks in image segmentation application due to
variations in size, type, shape and location of objects. In the traditional probabilistic graphical
segmentation models, intra and inter region segments may affect the overall segmentation accuracy. Also,
both directed and undirected graphical models such as Markov model, conditional random field have
limitations towards the human activity prediction and heterogeneous relationships. In this paper, we have
studied and proposed a natural solution for automatic human activity segmentation using the enhanced
probabilistic chain graphical model. This system has three main phases, namely activity pre-processing,
iterative threshold based image enhancement and chain graph segmentation algorithm. Experimental
results show that proposed system efficiently detects the human activities at different levels of the action
datasets.
Comparative Study and Analysis of Image Inpainting TechniquesIOSR Journals
Abstract: Image inpainting is a technique to fill missing region or reconstruct damage area from an image.It
removes an undesirable object from an image in visually plausible way.For filling the part of image, it use
information from the neighboring area. In this dissertation work, we present a Examplar based method for
filling in the missing information in an image, which takes structure synthesis and texture sysnthesis together.
In exemplar based approach it used local information from an image to patch propagation.We have also
implement Nonlocal Mean approach for exemplar based image inpainting.In Nonlocal mean approach it find
multiple samples of best exemplar patches for patch propagation and weight their contribution according to
their similarity to the neighborhood under evaluation. We have further extended this algorithm by considering
collaborative filtering method to synthesize and propagate with multiple samples of best exemplar patches. We
have to preformed experiment on many images and found that our algorithm successfully inpaint the target
region.We have tested the accuracy of our algorithm by finding parameter like PSNR and compared PSNR
value for all three different approaches.
Keywords: Texture Synthesis, Structure Synthesis, Patch Propagation ,imageinpainting ,nonlocal approach,
collabrative filtering.
Texture Segmentation Based on Multifractal Dimensionijsc
Texture segmentation can be considered the most important problem, since human can distinguish different
textures quit easily, but the automatic segmentation is quit complex and it is still an open problem for
research. In this paper focus on implement novel supervised algorithm for multitexture segmentation and
this algorithm based on blocking procedure where each image divide into block (16×16 pixels) and extract
vector feature for each block to classification these block based on these feature. These feature extract
using Box Counting Method (BCM). BCM generate single feature for each block and this feature not
enough to characterize each block ,therefore, must be implement algorithm provide more than one slide for
the image based on new method produce multithresolding, after this use BCM to generate single feature for
each slide.
This document discusses k-means clustering for image segmentation. It begins with an abstract describing a color-based image segmentation method using k-means clustering to partition pixels into homogeneous clusters. It then provides background on image segmentation and k-means clustering. The document outlines the k-means clustering algorithm and applies it to segment an example image ("rotapple.jpg") into three clusters corresponding to different image regions. It concludes that k-means clustering provides an effective approach for basic image segmentation.
COLOUR BASED IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING HYBRID KMEANS WITH WATERSHED SEGMENTATIONIAEME Publication
Image processing, arbitrarily manipulating an image to achieve an aesthetic standard or to support a preferred reality. The objective of segmentation is partitioning an image into distinct regions containing each pixels with similar attributes. Image segmentation can be done using thresholding, color space segmentation, k-means clustering.
Segmentation is the low-level operation concerned with partitioning images by determining disjoint and homogeneous regions or, equivalently, by finding edges or boundaries. The homogeneous regions, or the edges, are supposed to correspond, actual objects, or parts of them, within the images. Thus, in a large number of applications in image processing and computer vision, segmentation plays a fundamental role as the first step before applying to images higher-level operations such as recognition, semantic interpretation, and representation. Until very recently, attention has been focused on segmentation of gray-level images since these have been the only kind of visual information that acquisition devices were able to take the computer resources to handle. Nowadays, color image has definitely displaced monochromatic information and computation power is no longer a limitation in processing large volumes of data. In this paper proposed hybrid k-means with watershed segmentation algorithm is used segment the images. Filtering techniques is used as noise filtration method to improve the results and PSNR, MSE performance parameters has been calculated and shows the level of accuracy
Image Enhancement and Restoration by Image InpaintingIJERA Editor
Inpainting is the process of reconstructing lost or deteriorated part of images based on the background information. i. e .it fills the missing or damaged region in an image utilizing spatial information of its neighboring region. Inpainting algorithm have numerous applications. It is helpfully used for restoration of old films and object removal in digital photographs. The main goal of the algorithm is to modify the damaged region in an image in such a way that the inpainted region is undetectable to the ordinary observers who are not familiar with the original image. This proposed work presents image inpainting process for image enhancement and restoration by using structural, texture and exemplar techniques. This paper presents efficient algorithm that combines the advantages of these two approaches. We first note that exemplar-based texture synthesis contains the essential process required to replicate both texture and structure; the success of structure propagation, however, is highly dependent on the order in which the filling proceeds. We propose a best-first algorithm in which the confidence in the synthesized pixel values is propagated in a manner similar to the propagation of information in inpainting. The actual color values are computed using exemplar-based synthesis. Computational efficiency is achieved by a blockbased sampling process.
Importance of Mean Shift in Remote Sensing SegmentationIOSR Journals
1) Mean shift is a non-parametric clustering technique that can segment remote sensing images into homogeneous regions without prior knowledge of the number of clusters or constraints on cluster shape.
2) The document presents a case study demonstrating mean shift can segment an image containing oil storage tanks into distinct regions faster than level set segmentation.
3) Mean shift is shown to be well-suited for remote sensing image segmentation tasks like forest mapping and land cover classification due to its ability to handle noise, gradients, and texture variations common in real-world images.
SEGMENTATION USING ‘NEW’ TEXTURE FEATUREacijjournal
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a new texture feature descriptor called "NEW" for image segmentation. The NEW descriptor labels neighboring pixels and forms eight-component binary vectors to represent texture. Fuzzy c-means clustering is then used to segment images into regions based on texture. Experimental results on texture images from the Brodatz dataset show the NEW descriptor can successfully segment images into the correct number of texture regions. Accuracy, precision, and recall metrics are used to evaluate the segmentation performance.
Comparative analysis and implementation of structured edge active contour IJECEIAES
This paper proposes modified chanvese model which can be implemented on image for segmentation. The structure of paper is based on Linear structure tensor (LST) as input to the variant model. Structure tensor is a matrix illustration of partial derivative information. In the proposed model, the original image is considered as information channel for computing structure tensor. Difference of Gaussian (DOG) is featuring improvement in which we can get less blurred image than original image. In this paper LST is modified by adding intensity information to enhance orientation information. Finally Active Contour Model (ACM) is used to segment the images. The proposed algorithm is tested on various images and also on some images which have intensity inhomogeneity and results are shown. Also, the results with other algorithms like chanvese, Bhattacharya, Gabor based chanvese and Novel structure tensor based model are compared. It is verified that accuracy of proposed model is the best. The biggest advantage of proposed model is clear edge enhancement.
This document presents a novel method for recognizing two-dimensional QR barcodes using texture feature analysis and neural networks. It first extracts texture features like mean, standard deviation, smoothness, skewness and entropy from divided blocks of barcode images. These features are then used to train a neural network to classify blocks as containing a barcode or not. The trained neural network can then be used to locate barcodes in unknown images by classifying each block. The method is implemented and evaluated using MATLAB on a database of QR code images, showing satisfactory recognition results.
Image Segmentation Using Pairwise Correlation ClusteringIJERA Editor
A pairwise hypergraph based image segmentation framework is formulated in a supervised manner for various images. The image segmentation is to infer the edge label over the pairwise hypergraph by maximizing the normalized cuts. Correlation clustering which is a graph partitioning algorithm, was shown to be effective in a number of applications such as identification, clustering of documents and image segmentation.The partitioning result is derived from a algorithm to partition a pairwise graph into disjoint groups of coherent nodes. In the pairwise correlation clustering, the pairwise graph which is used in the correlation clustering is generalized to a superpixel graph where a node corresponds to a superpixel and a link between adjacent superpixels corresponds to an edge. This pairwise correlation clustering also considers the feature vector which extracts several visual cues from a superpixel, including brightness, color, texture, and shape. Significant progress in clustering has been achieved by algorithms that are based on pairwise affinities between the datasets. The experimental results are shown by calculating the typical cut and inference in an undirected graphical model and datasets.
This document provides a survey of various image segmentation techniques used in image processing. It begins with an introduction to image segmentation and its importance in fields like pattern recognition and medical imaging. It then categorizes and describes different segmentation approaches like edge-based, threshold-based, region-based, etc. The literature survey section summarizes several papers on specific segmentation algorithms or applications. It concludes with a table comparing the advantages and disadvantages of different segmentation techniques. The overall document aims to provide an overview of segmentation methods and their uses in computer vision.
This document summarizes and analyzes image segmentation and edge detection techniques for medical images. It discusses several current segmentation methods like histogram-based, edge detection, region growing, level set, and graph partitioning methods. The document then proposes a new active contour model for image segmentation that uses both edge and region information to segment images with undefined boundaries. It also discusses solving computational difficulties of models using level set theory. In conclusion, the proposed segmentation algorithms are shown to outperform some well-known methods in accuracy and processing speed.
REMOVING OCCLUSION IN IMAGES USING SPARSE PROCESSING AND TEXTURE SYNTHESISIJCSEA Journal
The document presents a method for removing large occlusions from images using sparse processing and texture synthesis. It involves decomposing the image into structure and texture images using sparse representations. The occluded regions in the structure image are filled in using sparse reconstruction, which retains image structures. Texture synthesis is then performed on the texture image to fill in the occluded texture. Finally, the reconstructed structure and texture images are combined to produce the occlusion-free output image. The method is shown to effectively remove large occlusions while avoiding blurring and retaining both structures and textures. It outperforms other inpainting methods in terms of visual quality.
Fpga implementation of image segmentation by using edge detection based on so...eSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
Fpga implementation of image segmentation by using edge detection based on so...eSAT Journals
This document summarizes an article that presents a method for implementing image segmentation using edge detection based on the Sobel edge operator on an FPGA. It describes how the Sobel operator works by calculating horizontal and vertical gradients to detect edges. The document outlines the steps to segment an image using Sobel edge detection, including applying horizontal and vertical masks, calculating the gradient, and thresholding. It also provides the architecture for the FPGA implementation, including modules for pixel generation, Sobel enhancement, edge detection, and binary segmentation. The results show edge detection outputs from MATLAB and simulation waveforms, demonstrating the FPGA-based method can perform edge-based image segmentation.
Texture Unit based Approach to Discriminate Manmade Scenes from Natural Scenesidescitation
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a method to discriminate between natural and manmade scenes using texture analysis. It analyzes local texture information in images using a "texture unit matrix" approach. Texture units characterize the texture of a pixel and its neighbors. Texture unit matrices are generated from images and used to form feature vectors. A self-organizing map (SOM) classifier is then used to classify images as natural or manmade based on these feature vectors. The researchers tested their method on databases of "near" scenes within 10 meters and "far" scenes about 500 meters away. Their results found that analyzing the minimum texture unit matrix in a base-5 approach provided the most accurate classifications between natural and manmade scenes
OBJECT SEGMENTATION USING MULTISCALE MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONSijcseit
Object segmentation plays an important role in human visual perception, medical image processing and content based image retrieval. It provides information for recognition and interpretation. This paper uses mathematical morphology for image segmentation. Object segmentation is difficult because one usually does not know a priori what type of object exists in an image, how many different shapes are there and what regions the image has. To carryout discrimination and segmentation several innovative segmentation methods, based on morphology are proposed. The present study proposes segmentation method based on multiscale morphological reconstructions. Various sizes of structuring elements have been used to segment simple and complex shapes. It enhances local boundaries that may lead to improve segmentation accuracy.The method is tested on various datasets and results shows that it can be used for both interactive and automatic segmentation.
The document discusses AIDS/HIV, including its definition, etiology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. It describes HIV's target cells (CD4+ T lymphocytes), its various stages from initial infection to AIDS, common opportunistic infections associated with AIDS like Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia treated with pentamidine, and combination antiretroviral therapy.
Comparative Study and Analysis of Image Inpainting TechniquesIOSR Journals
Abstract: Image inpainting is a technique to fill missing region or reconstruct damage area from an image.It
removes an undesirable object from an image in visually plausible way.For filling the part of image, it use
information from the neighboring area. In this dissertation work, we present a Examplar based method for
filling in the missing information in an image, which takes structure synthesis and texture sysnthesis together.
In exemplar based approach it used local information from an image to patch propagation.We have also
implement Nonlocal Mean approach for exemplar based image inpainting.In Nonlocal mean approach it find
multiple samples of best exemplar patches for patch propagation and weight their contribution according to
their similarity to the neighborhood under evaluation. We have further extended this algorithm by considering
collaborative filtering method to synthesize and propagate with multiple samples of best exemplar patches. We
have to preformed experiment on many images and found that our algorithm successfully inpaint the target
region.We have tested the accuracy of our algorithm by finding parameter like PSNR and compared PSNR
value for all three different approaches.
Keywords: Texture Synthesis, Structure Synthesis, Patch Propagation ,imageinpainting ,nonlocal approach,
collabrative filtering.
Texture Segmentation Based on Multifractal Dimensionijsc
Texture segmentation can be considered the most important problem, since human can distinguish different
textures quit easily, but the automatic segmentation is quit complex and it is still an open problem for
research. In this paper focus on implement novel supervised algorithm for multitexture segmentation and
this algorithm based on blocking procedure where each image divide into block (16×16 pixels) and extract
vector feature for each block to classification these block based on these feature. These feature extract
using Box Counting Method (BCM). BCM generate single feature for each block and this feature not
enough to characterize each block ,therefore, must be implement algorithm provide more than one slide for
the image based on new method produce multithresolding, after this use BCM to generate single feature for
each slide.
This document discusses k-means clustering for image segmentation. It begins with an abstract describing a color-based image segmentation method using k-means clustering to partition pixels into homogeneous clusters. It then provides background on image segmentation and k-means clustering. The document outlines the k-means clustering algorithm and applies it to segment an example image ("rotapple.jpg") into three clusters corresponding to different image regions. It concludes that k-means clustering provides an effective approach for basic image segmentation.
COLOUR BASED IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING HYBRID KMEANS WITH WATERSHED SEGMENTATIONIAEME Publication
Image processing, arbitrarily manipulating an image to achieve an aesthetic standard or to support a preferred reality. The objective of segmentation is partitioning an image into distinct regions containing each pixels with similar attributes. Image segmentation can be done using thresholding, color space segmentation, k-means clustering.
Segmentation is the low-level operation concerned with partitioning images by determining disjoint and homogeneous regions or, equivalently, by finding edges or boundaries. The homogeneous regions, or the edges, are supposed to correspond, actual objects, or parts of them, within the images. Thus, in a large number of applications in image processing and computer vision, segmentation plays a fundamental role as the first step before applying to images higher-level operations such as recognition, semantic interpretation, and representation. Until very recently, attention has been focused on segmentation of gray-level images since these have been the only kind of visual information that acquisition devices were able to take the computer resources to handle. Nowadays, color image has definitely displaced monochromatic information and computation power is no longer a limitation in processing large volumes of data. In this paper proposed hybrid k-means with watershed segmentation algorithm is used segment the images. Filtering techniques is used as noise filtration method to improve the results and PSNR, MSE performance parameters has been calculated and shows the level of accuracy
Image Enhancement and Restoration by Image InpaintingIJERA Editor
Inpainting is the process of reconstructing lost or deteriorated part of images based on the background information. i. e .it fills the missing or damaged region in an image utilizing spatial information of its neighboring region. Inpainting algorithm have numerous applications. It is helpfully used for restoration of old films and object removal in digital photographs. The main goal of the algorithm is to modify the damaged region in an image in such a way that the inpainted region is undetectable to the ordinary observers who are not familiar with the original image. This proposed work presents image inpainting process for image enhancement and restoration by using structural, texture and exemplar techniques. This paper presents efficient algorithm that combines the advantages of these two approaches. We first note that exemplar-based texture synthesis contains the essential process required to replicate both texture and structure; the success of structure propagation, however, is highly dependent on the order in which the filling proceeds. We propose a best-first algorithm in which the confidence in the synthesized pixel values is propagated in a manner similar to the propagation of information in inpainting. The actual color values are computed using exemplar-based synthesis. Computational efficiency is achieved by a blockbased sampling process.
Importance of Mean Shift in Remote Sensing SegmentationIOSR Journals
1) Mean shift is a non-parametric clustering technique that can segment remote sensing images into homogeneous regions without prior knowledge of the number of clusters or constraints on cluster shape.
2) The document presents a case study demonstrating mean shift can segment an image containing oil storage tanks into distinct regions faster than level set segmentation.
3) Mean shift is shown to be well-suited for remote sensing image segmentation tasks like forest mapping and land cover classification due to its ability to handle noise, gradients, and texture variations common in real-world images.
SEGMENTATION USING ‘NEW’ TEXTURE FEATUREacijjournal
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a new texture feature descriptor called "NEW" for image segmentation. The NEW descriptor labels neighboring pixels and forms eight-component binary vectors to represent texture. Fuzzy c-means clustering is then used to segment images into regions based on texture. Experimental results on texture images from the Brodatz dataset show the NEW descriptor can successfully segment images into the correct number of texture regions. Accuracy, precision, and recall metrics are used to evaluate the segmentation performance.
Comparative analysis and implementation of structured edge active contour IJECEIAES
This paper proposes modified chanvese model which can be implemented on image for segmentation. The structure of paper is based on Linear structure tensor (LST) as input to the variant model. Structure tensor is a matrix illustration of partial derivative information. In the proposed model, the original image is considered as information channel for computing structure tensor. Difference of Gaussian (DOG) is featuring improvement in which we can get less blurred image than original image. In this paper LST is modified by adding intensity information to enhance orientation information. Finally Active Contour Model (ACM) is used to segment the images. The proposed algorithm is tested on various images and also on some images which have intensity inhomogeneity and results are shown. Also, the results with other algorithms like chanvese, Bhattacharya, Gabor based chanvese and Novel structure tensor based model are compared. It is verified that accuracy of proposed model is the best. The biggest advantage of proposed model is clear edge enhancement.
This document presents a novel method for recognizing two-dimensional QR barcodes using texture feature analysis and neural networks. It first extracts texture features like mean, standard deviation, smoothness, skewness and entropy from divided blocks of barcode images. These features are then used to train a neural network to classify blocks as containing a barcode or not. The trained neural network can then be used to locate barcodes in unknown images by classifying each block. The method is implemented and evaluated using MATLAB on a database of QR code images, showing satisfactory recognition results.
Image Segmentation Using Pairwise Correlation ClusteringIJERA Editor
A pairwise hypergraph based image segmentation framework is formulated in a supervised manner for various images. The image segmentation is to infer the edge label over the pairwise hypergraph by maximizing the normalized cuts. Correlation clustering which is a graph partitioning algorithm, was shown to be effective in a number of applications such as identification, clustering of documents and image segmentation.The partitioning result is derived from a algorithm to partition a pairwise graph into disjoint groups of coherent nodes. In the pairwise correlation clustering, the pairwise graph which is used in the correlation clustering is generalized to a superpixel graph where a node corresponds to a superpixel and a link between adjacent superpixels corresponds to an edge. This pairwise correlation clustering also considers the feature vector which extracts several visual cues from a superpixel, including brightness, color, texture, and shape. Significant progress in clustering has been achieved by algorithms that are based on pairwise affinities between the datasets. The experimental results are shown by calculating the typical cut and inference in an undirected graphical model and datasets.
This document provides a survey of various image segmentation techniques used in image processing. It begins with an introduction to image segmentation and its importance in fields like pattern recognition and medical imaging. It then categorizes and describes different segmentation approaches like edge-based, threshold-based, region-based, etc. The literature survey section summarizes several papers on specific segmentation algorithms or applications. It concludes with a table comparing the advantages and disadvantages of different segmentation techniques. The overall document aims to provide an overview of segmentation methods and their uses in computer vision.
This document summarizes and analyzes image segmentation and edge detection techniques for medical images. It discusses several current segmentation methods like histogram-based, edge detection, region growing, level set, and graph partitioning methods. The document then proposes a new active contour model for image segmentation that uses both edge and region information to segment images with undefined boundaries. It also discusses solving computational difficulties of models using level set theory. In conclusion, the proposed segmentation algorithms are shown to outperform some well-known methods in accuracy and processing speed.
REMOVING OCCLUSION IN IMAGES USING SPARSE PROCESSING AND TEXTURE SYNTHESISIJCSEA Journal
The document presents a method for removing large occlusions from images using sparse processing and texture synthesis. It involves decomposing the image into structure and texture images using sparse representations. The occluded regions in the structure image are filled in using sparse reconstruction, which retains image structures. Texture synthesis is then performed on the texture image to fill in the occluded texture. Finally, the reconstructed structure and texture images are combined to produce the occlusion-free output image. The method is shown to effectively remove large occlusions while avoiding blurring and retaining both structures and textures. It outperforms other inpainting methods in terms of visual quality.
Fpga implementation of image segmentation by using edge detection based on so...eSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
Fpga implementation of image segmentation by using edge detection based on so...eSAT Journals
This document summarizes an article that presents a method for implementing image segmentation using edge detection based on the Sobel edge operator on an FPGA. It describes how the Sobel operator works by calculating horizontal and vertical gradients to detect edges. The document outlines the steps to segment an image using Sobel edge detection, including applying horizontal and vertical masks, calculating the gradient, and thresholding. It also provides the architecture for the FPGA implementation, including modules for pixel generation, Sobel enhancement, edge detection, and binary segmentation. The results show edge detection outputs from MATLAB and simulation waveforms, demonstrating the FPGA-based method can perform edge-based image segmentation.
Texture Unit based Approach to Discriminate Manmade Scenes from Natural Scenesidescitation
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a method to discriminate between natural and manmade scenes using texture analysis. It analyzes local texture information in images using a "texture unit matrix" approach. Texture units characterize the texture of a pixel and its neighbors. Texture unit matrices are generated from images and used to form feature vectors. A self-organizing map (SOM) classifier is then used to classify images as natural or manmade based on these feature vectors. The researchers tested their method on databases of "near" scenes within 10 meters and "far" scenes about 500 meters away. Their results found that analyzing the minimum texture unit matrix in a base-5 approach provided the most accurate classifications between natural and manmade scenes
OBJECT SEGMENTATION USING MULTISCALE MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONSijcseit
Object segmentation plays an important role in human visual perception, medical image processing and content based image retrieval. It provides information for recognition and interpretation. This paper uses mathematical morphology for image segmentation. Object segmentation is difficult because one usually does not know a priori what type of object exists in an image, how many different shapes are there and what regions the image has. To carryout discrimination and segmentation several innovative segmentation methods, based on morphology are proposed. The present study proposes segmentation method based on multiscale morphological reconstructions. Various sizes of structuring elements have been used to segment simple and complex shapes. It enhances local boundaries that may lead to improve segmentation accuracy.The method is tested on various datasets and results shows that it can be used for both interactive and automatic segmentation.
The document discusses AIDS/HIV, including its definition, etiology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. It describes HIV's target cells (CD4+ T lymphocytes), its various stages from initial infection to AIDS, common opportunistic infections associated with AIDS like Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia treated with pentamidine, and combination antiretroviral therapy.
Three friends - Nicole, Alyia, and Paco - investigate a glowing sphere that appears every Halloween in a dark alley near Nicole's house. When Paco touches the sphere, it explodes and shards enter each of them, giving them strange abilities. Nicole gains the power of flight, Kael can control things with his mind, and strange events continue to occur as they try to understand what is happening to them.
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A Survey on Image Segmentation and its Applications in Image Processing IJEEE
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Semi-Supervised Method of Multiple Object Segmentation with a Region Labeling...sipij
Efficient and efficient multiple object segmentation is an important task in computer vision and object recognition. In this work; we address a method to effectively discover a user’s concept when multiple objects of interest are involved in content based image retrieval. The proposed method incorporate a framework for multiple object retrieval using semi-supervised method of similar region merging and flood fill which models the spatial and appearance relations among image pixels. To improve the effectiveness of similarity based region merging we propose a new similarity based object retrieval. The users only need to roughly indicate the after which steps desired objects contour is obtained during the automatic merging of similar regions. A novel similarity based region merging mechanism is proposed to guide the merging process with the help of mean shift technique and objects detection using region labeling and flood fill. A region R is merged with its adjacent regions Q if Q has highest similarity with Q (using Bhattacharyya descriptor) among all Q’s adjacent regions. The proposed method automatically merges the regions that are initially segmented through mean shift technique, and then effectively extracts the object contour by merging all similar regions. Extensive experiments are performed on 12 object classes (224 images total) show promising results.
Review paper on segmentation methods for multiobject feature extractioneSAT Journals
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Review of Image Segmentation Techniques based on Region Merging ApproachEditor IJMTER
Image segmentation is an important task in computer vision and object recognition. Since
fully automatic image segmentation is usually very hard for natural images, interactive schemes with a
few simple user inputs are good solutions. In image segmentation the image is dividing into various
segments for processing images. The complexity of image content is a bigger challenge for carrying out
automatic image segmentation. On regions based scheme, the images are merged based on the similarity
criteria depending upon comparing the mean values of both the regions to be merged. So, the similar
regions are then merged and the dissimilar regions are merged together.
An effective RGB color selection for complex 3D object structure in scene gra...IJECEIAES
Our goal of the project is to develop a complete, fully detailed 3D interactive model of the human body and systems in the human body, and allow the user to interacts in 3D with all the elements of that system, to teach students about human anatomy. Some organs, which contain a lot of details about a particular anatomy, need to be accurately and fully described in minute detail, such as the brain, lungs, liver and heart. These organs are need have all the detailed descriptions of the medical information needed to learn how to do surgery on them, and should allow the user to add careful and precise marking to indicate the operative landmarks on the surgery location. Adding so many different items of information is challenging when the area to which the information needs to be attached is very detailed and overlaps with all kinds of other medical information related to the area. Existing methods to tag areas was not allowing us sufficient locations to attach the information to. Our solution combines a variety of tagging methods, which use the marking method by selecting the RGB color area that is drawn in the texture, on the complex 3D object structure. Then, it relies on those RGB color codes to tag IDs and create relational tables that store the related information about the specific areas of the anatomy. With this method of marking, it is possible to use the entire set of color values (R, G, B) to identify a set of anatomic regions, and this also makes it possible to define multiple overlapping regions.
This document summarizes several existing techniques for image inpainting, including texture synthesis, geometric partial differential equations (PDEs), and coherence-based methods. It then proposes a combined model that incorporates elements of these different approaches into a variational framework. Specifically, it suggests combining texture synthesis, PDE-based diffusion, and enforcing coherence among neighboring pixels and across frames for video inpainting. The goal is to approximate the minimum of the proposed energy functional to better fill in missing or corrupted regions of images and video frames.
A deep learning based stereo matching model for autonomous vehicleIAESIJAI
Autonomous vehicle is one the prominent area of research in computer
vision. In today’s AI world, the concept of autonomous vehicles has become
popular largely to avoid accidents due to negligence of driver. Perceiving the
depth of the surrounding region accurately is a challenging task in
autonomous vehicles. Sensors like light detection and ranging can be used
for depth estimation but these sensors are expensive. Hence stereo matching
is an alternate solution to estimate the depth. The main difficulties observed
in stereo matching is to minimize mismatches in the ill-posed regions, like
occluded, texture less and discontinuous regions. This paper presents an
efficient deep stereo matching technique for estimating disparity map from
stereo images in ill-posed regions. The images from Middlebury stereo data
set are used to assess the efficacy of the model proposed. The experimental
outcome dipicts that the proposed model generates reliable results in the
occluded, texture less and discontinuous regions as compared to the existing
techniques.
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In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
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1. “GrowCut” - Interactive Multi-Label N-D Image Segmentation By Cellular
Automata
Vladimir Vezhnevets ∗ Vadim Konouchine
Graphics and Media Laboratory †
Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics
Moscow State University,
Moscow, Russia.
Abstract 4. Performs multi-label image segmentation (the computation
time does not depend on the number of labels);
In this paper we describe a novel algorithm for interactive multi-
label segmentation of N-dimensional images. Given a small num- 5. Is extensible, allows constructing new families of segmenta-
ber of user-labelled pixels, the rest of the image is segmented au- tion algorithms with specific properties;
tomatically by a Cellular Automaton. The process is iterative, as
the automaton labels the image, user can observe the segmentation 6. Is truly interactive - the user observes the process of comput-
evolution and guide the algorithm with human input where the seg- ing the segmentation and is able to make modifications and
mentation is difficult to compute. In the areas, where the segmen- corrections at any time;
tation is reliably computed automatically no additional user effort
is required. Results of segmenting generic photos and medical im- Second, and most important, we would like to attract attention to
ages are presented. Our experiments show that modest user effort another possible view on segmentation problem, apart from graph
is required for segmentation of moderately hard images. theory. Cellular automata family is very rich and diverse, and our
hope is that by applying experience and knowledge accumulated in
Keywords: interactive image segmentation, graph cut, cellular this field to interactive image segmentation task, research commu-
automata, image editing, foreground extraction nity will be able to come up with some novel and ingenious solu-
tions.
1 Introduction
1.1 Related work
Image segmentation is an integral part of image processing appli-
cations like medical images analysis and photo editing. A wide In this section we briefly outline main features of current state-of-
range of computational vision algorithms can also benefit from ex- the-art interactive segmentation techniques. We informally divide
istence of reliable and efficient image segmentation technique. For these methods into two families - proposed for generic image edit-
instance, intermediate-level vision problems such as shape from sil- ing, and developed especially for medical images. In reality, most
houette, shape from stereo and object tracking could make use of of the methods can be successfully applied in both domains.
reliable segmentation of the object of interest from the rest of the
scene. Higher-level problems such as recognition and image index- Magic Wand - is a common selection tool for almost any image
ing can also make use of segmentation results in matching. editor nowadays. It gathers color statistics from the user-
Fully automated segmentation techniques are being constantly specified image point (or region) and segments (connected)
improved, however, no automated image analysis technique can image region with pixels, which color properties fall within
be applied fully autonomously with guaranteed results in general some given tolerance of the gathered statistics.
case. That is why semi-automatic segmentation techniques that al-
low solving moderate and hard segmentation tasks by modest effort Intelligent paint - is a region-based interactive segmentation tech-
on the part of the user are becoming more and more popular. nique, based on hierarchical image segmentation by tobog-
Several powerful techniques for interactive image segmentation ganing [Reese 1999]. It uses a connect-and-collect strategy to
have been proposed recently based on graph cuts [Boykov and Jolly define an objects region. This strategy uses a hierarchical to-
2001], [Rother et al. 2004] and random walker [Grady and Funka- bogganing algorithm to automatically connect image regions
Lea 2004]. They seem to significantly outperform earlier methods that naturally flow together, and a user-guided, cumulative
both by resulting segmentation quality and required user effort. cost-ordered expansion interface to interactively collect those
This paper’s contribution is twofold. First, we propose a new regions which constitute the object of interest. This strategy
interactive segmentation scheme, based on cellular automata, that coordinates human-computer interaction to extract regions of
has several favorable properties (see section 2 for details): interest from complex backgrounds using paint strokes with a
mouse.
1. Capable of solving moderately hard segmentation tasks (see
examples in this paper); Intelligent scissors - is a boundary-based method, that computes
2. Is easy in implementing and allows efficient parallel imple- minimum-cost path between user-specified boundary points
mentation; [Mortensen and Barrett 1998]. It treats each pixel as a graph
node and uses shortest-path graph algorithms for boundary
3. Works with images of any dimension N ≥ 1; calculation. A faster variant of region-based intelligent scis-
sors uses tobogganing for image oversegmentation and then
∗ e-mail: vvp@graphics.cmc.msu.ru treats homogenous regions as a graph nodes [Mortensen and
† www: http://graphics.cmc.msu.ru Barrett 1999].
2. Graph Cut is a combinatorial optimization technique, which was achieving better segmentation results with less user effort required,
applied by [Boykov and Jolly 2001] to the task of image seg- compared with other methods. One of the few drawbacks of the
mentation. The image is treated as a graph - each pixel is a graph-based methods is that they are not easily extended to multi-
graph node. For the case of two labels (i.e. object and back- label task and the other is that they are not very flexible - the only
ground) the globally optimal pixel labelling (with respect to tunable parameters are the graph weighting and cost function coef-
defined cost function) can be efficiently computed by max- ficients. For example, additional restrictions on the object boundary
flow/min-cut algorithms. This technique can be applied to smoothness or soft user-specified segmentation constraints cannot
N-dimensional images. Given user-specified object and back- be added readily. As for the intelligent paint, judging by the ex-
ground seed pixels, the rest of the pixels are labelled automat- amples supplied by the authors, the advantage of their method over
ically. the traditional ‘magic wand’ is in speed and number of user in-
teractions. As it appears from the algorithm description and pre-
GrabCut [Rother et al. 2004] extends graph-cut by introducing sented results, it is unlikely that intelligent paint would be capable
iterative segmentation scheme, that uses graph-cut for inter- of solving hard segmentation problems like in [Rother et al. 2004],
mediate steps. The user draws rectangle around the object [Boykov and Jolly 2001]. Precise object boundary estimation is
of interest - this gives the first approximation of the final ob- also questionable, because the finest segmentation level is obtained
ject/background labelling. Then, each iteration step gathers by initial tobogganing oversegmentation, which may not coincide
color statistics according to current segmentation, re-weights with actual object borders.
the image graph and applies graph-cut to compute new re- Speaking about medical images, the best performing method is
fined segmentation. After the iterations stop the segmentation random walker (judging by the provided examples). It leaves be-
results can be refined by specifying additional seeds, similar hind both watershed segmentation and region growing behind in
to original graph-cut. quality and robustness of segmentation. The quality of segmenta-
tion comparable to is graph cuts, but random walker is capable of
Medical images have their own unique properties. In many cases finding the solution for number of labels > 2. However, it is rather
they are graylevel and objects that should be segmented are very slow and its implementation is not an easy task. Also, method
different in their structure and appearance from the objects that are extension to achieve some special algorithm properties (i.e. con-
common in photo editing. Probably that is why much research ef- trollable boundary smoothness) is not straightforward. It should
fort was applied for developing specific and efficient segmentation be mentioned, that multi-labelling tasks can be solved by min-cut
methods for the medical images domain. Nevertheless, some seg- graph algorithms [Boykov et al. 2001], but no attempt to apply this
mentation techniques like Graph Cuts can successfully be applied multi-labelling method to interactive image segmentation is known
to medical images also. Some specific ‘medical’ segmentation tech- to us.
niques are reviewed further.
Marker-based watershed transformation uses watershed trans- 1.2 Proposed method
form, supported by user-specified markers (seeds) for seg- We take an intuitive user interaction scheme - user specifies certain
menting graylevel images [Moga and Gabbouj 1996]. Wa- image pixels (we will call them seed pixels) that belong to objects,
tershed transform treats the image as a surface with the relief that should be segmented from each other. The task is to assign
specified by the pixel brightness, or by absolute value of the labels to all other image pixels automatically, preferably achiev-
image gradient. The valleys of the resulting ‘landscape’ are ing the segmentation result the user is expecting to get. The task
filled with water, until it reaches the ‘mountains’. Markers statement and input data is similar to [Boykov and Jolly 2001] and
placed in the image specify the initial labels that should be [Grady and Funka-Lea 2004], however the segmentation instrument
segmented from each other. differs.
Our method uses cellular automaton for solving pixel labelling
Random walker [Grady and Funka-Lea 2004] given a small num- task. The method is iterative, giving feedback to the user while
ber of pixels with user-defined seed labels (labels number can the segmentation is computed. Proposed method allows (but not
be grater than 2), analytically determines the probability that requires) human input during labelling process, to provide dynamic
a random walker starting at each unlabelled pixel will first interaction and feedback between the user and the algorithm. This
reach one of the pre-labelled pixels. By assigning each pixel allows to correcting and guidance of the algorithm with user input
to the label for which the greatest probability is calculated, im- in the areas where the segmentation is difficult to compute, yet does
age segmentation is obtained. This method provides unique not require additional user effort where the segmentation is reliably
segmentation solution into connected segments, with some computed automatically.
robustness against ‘weak’ boundaries. A confidence rating
Important properties of our method, that we would like to outline
of each pixel’s membership in the segmentation is also esti-
are:
mated.
1. Capable of solving moderately hard segmentation tasks (see
Interactive region growing is a descendant of one of the classic
examples in this paper);
image segmentation techniques. Initially, the seed pixel in-
side the object of interest is specified, and then neighboring 2. Works with images of any dimension N ≥ 1;
pixels are iteratively added to the growing region, while they
conform to some region homogeneity criterium. The main 3. Performs multi-label image segmentation (the computation
problem is ‘leaking’ of the growing region through ‘weak’ time is not directly affected by the number of labels);
boundaries, however some treatment of this problem was pro-
posed [Heimann et al. 2004]. This method works with two 4. Is extensible, allowing construction of new families of seg-
labels only - object and background. mentation algorithms with specific properties;
The performance of described photo editing methods was eval- 5. Interactivity - as the segmentation is refined with each itera-
uated in [Rother et al. 2004] (except for the intelligent paint). The tion, user can observe the evolution and refine the segmenta-
authors have clearly shown, that methods based on graph cuts allow tion “on the fly”;
3. 6. The algorithm is simple in both understanding and implemen-
tation;
7. Using cellular automata allows fast parallel implementation;
The rest of the paper is organized follows. Section 2 describes
the proposed method in detail. Section 3 gives the results, section (a) (b) (c)
4 provides discussion and comparison with other methods. Finally
the conclusive remark is given in section 5. Figure 1: Segmentation of a color image. (a) Source image, (b)
user-specified seeds, (c) segmentation results
2 Method details
At iteration t + 1 cell labels l t+1 and strengths θ p are updated
p
t+1
2.1 Basic method as follows:
Cellular automata (CA) were introduced by Ulam and von Neu-
Code 1 Automata evolution rule
mann [von Neumann 1966]. Since then they’ve been used to
model wide variety of dynamical systems in various application do- // For each cell...
mains, including image denoising and edge detection [Popovici and for ∀p ∈ P
Popovici 2002], [Hernandez and Herrmann 1996]. A cellular au- // Copy previous state
tomaton is generally an algorithm discrete in both space and time, l t+1 = l tp ;
p
that operates on a lattice of sites p ∈ P ⊆ Z n (pixels or voxels in θp = θp;
t+1 t
image processing). // neighbors try to attack current cell
A (bi-directional, deterministic) cellular automaton is a triplet for ∀q ∈ N(p)
A = (S, N, δ ), where S is an non-empty state set, N is the neighbor- if g( C p − Cq 2 ) · θq > θ p
t t
hood system, and δ : SN → S is the local transition function (rule). l t+1 = lq
p
t
This function defines the rule of calculating the cell’s state at t + 1 θ p = g( C p − Cq 2 ) · θq
t+1 t
time step, given the states of the neighborhood cells at previous
end if
time step t.
end for
Commonly used neighborhood systems N are the von Neumann
end for
and Moore neighborhoods:
• von Neumann neighborhood
n Where g is a monotonous decreasing function bounded to [0, 1],
N(p) = {q ∈ Z n : p − q 1 := ∑ |pi − qi | = 1}; (1) we use a simple one:
i=1 x
g(x) = 1 − ; (4)
max C 2
• Moore neighborhood
To supply an intuitive explanation to the pseudocode above we
N(p) = {q ∈ Z n : p − q ∞ := max |pi − qi | = 1}; (2) can use biological metaphor. We can treat pixel labelling process as
i=1,n
growth and struggle for domination of K types of bacteria. The bac-
teria start to spread (grow) from the seed pixels and try to occupy
The cell state S p in our case is actually a triplet (l p , θ p , C p ) - the all the image. That is why we called the method ‘GrowCut’. The
label l p of the current cell, ‘strength’ of the current cell θ p , and cell rules of bacteria growth and competition are obvious - at each dis-
feature vector C p , defined by the image. Without loss of generality crete time step, each cell tries to ‘attack’ its neighbors. The attack
we will assume θ p ∈ [0, 1]. force is defined by the attacker cell’s strength θq , and the distance
A digital image is a two-dimensional array of k × m pixels. An between attacker’s and defender’s feature vectors Cq and C p . If the
unlabelled image may be then considered as a particular configura- attack force is greater than defender’s strength - the defending cell
tion state of a cellular automaton, where cellular space P is defined is ‘conquered’ and its label and strength are changed. The result
by the k × m array set by the image, and initial states for ∀p ∈ P are of these local competitions is that the strongest bacteria occupy the
set to: neighboring sites and gradually spread over the image.
l p = 0, θ p = 0, C p = RGB p ; (3) The calculation continues until automaton converges to stable
configuration, where cell states seize to change. The example of
where RGB p is the three dimensional vector of pixel’s p color in image segmentation is shown in figures 1 and 2. The method is
RGB space. The final goal of the segmentation is to assign each guaranteed to converge as the strength of each cell is a increasing
pixel one of the K possible labels. and bounded.
When user starts the segmentation by specifying the segmenta-
tion seeds, the seeded cells labels are set accordingly, while their
strength is set to the seed strength value (more about it in section
2.3). This sets the initial state of the cellular automaton.
(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)
Figure 2: Bacteria evolution steps. White - ‘object’ labelled bacte-
ria, black - ‘background’ labelled bacteria, gray - neutral territory.
(a) - step 1, (b) - step 10, (c) - step 25, (d) - step 40, (e) - step 65.
4. 2.2 Adding controllable boundary smoothness One important difference from the methods based on graph cuts
is that seeds do not necessarily specify hard segmentation con-
The basic scheme is very simple and yet is able to achieve quality straints. In other words - user brush strokes need not to specify
segmentation (see figures 1, 4, 5). But in some images, the result- only the areas of firm foreground or firm background, but instead
ing segments boundary can be ragged, see figure 3 (a). It can be can adjust the pixels state continuously, making them ‘more fore-
acceptable, or even necessary when the task is to capture the small- ground’ or ‘a little more background’ for example. This gives more
est detail of the boundary (i.e. in medical applications), but this versatile control of the segmentation from the user part and makes
can be an unwanted artifact when editing a generic high-resolution the process tolerable to inaccurate paint strokes. This is especially
photo. To achieve smoother boundary, we propose an extension to helpful for segmenting accurate boundaries of objects like flowers
the automata in section 2.1. Local transition rule is modified with or plant leaves, like in figure 7.
two additional conditions. First: the cell, that has too many enemies The seed ‘strength’ is controlled by the initial strength θ that is
around - enemiest (p) ≥ T1 is prohibited to attack its neighbors. Sec- set by the user’s brush strokes. Hard constraints specify the pix-
ond: the cell that has enemiest (p) ≥ T2 is forced to be occupied by els that should not change during the evolution, which is easily
the weakest of it’s enemies, no matter the cell’s strength. The ene- achieved by setting seed cells strength to 1. Soft constraints set
mies number is defined by: their initial strength values < 1 or just increase or decrease current
cell strength by some value.
enemiest (p) = max (
l=1,K
∑ 1) (5) Unlike graph cuts, adding seeds in already correctly segmented
q∈N(p),lq =l tp
t
area (i.e. near the border) can help to achieve better segmentation
in troubled areas. This is especially true when accurate border in
The thresholds values T1 , T2 control the boundary smoothness. blurry or camouflaged area is estimated.
Reasonable values for 2D images and Moore neighborhood range
from 9 (no smoothing) to 6. The examples of segmented border for
identical initial seeds and different threshold values are presented
in figure 3. 3 Results
We demonstrate our segmentation method in several examples in-
cluding photo editing and medical image segmentation. We show
original data and resulting segments generated by our technique, for
a given set of seeds.
3.1 Medical images
Figure 4 shows segmentations that have been obtained on several
(a) (b)
medical images from the DICOM image samples [Barre n. d.] -
user-specified seeds and resulting segmentation.
Figure 3: Different boundary smoothness restrictions. (a) T1 , T2 =
9, (b) T1 , T2 = 6.
2.3 User interaction
For the discussion on user interaction we will consider the case of
two labels - object and background. To our opinion, this is the most
often case of segmentation task in photo editing. However, this is
only for the sake of clarity, everything said here is true for the case
of labels K > 2 also.
The segmentation is started by specifying the initial seeds. This
is done by user’s strokes with ‘object’ and ‘background’ brushes
(see figure 1.b - red pixels correspond to ‘object’ brush strokes, blue
- to ‘background’ strokes). Each paint stroke of a defined brush sets
the initial labels and strengths of seed pixels.
After the initial seeds are set, the automata evolution starts. The Figure 4: Medical images segmentation results.
initial, incomplete user-labelling is often sufficient to allow the en-
tire segmentation to be completed automatically, but by no means
always. While the cell labels are being computed, the user can
observe the progress and interactively correct and guide the la- 3.2 Photo editing
belling process if necessary. User editing takes the form of brushing
pixels for adding new segmentation constraints. Each new paint In Figures 5 and 7 we show results of segmentation of several pho-
stroke changes the states of the underlying pixels and affects the tographs.
automaton evolution. This strategy allows to extract regions of in- Naturally, the hope is that the method can quickly identify the
terest from complex backgrounds using simple paint strokes with a right object, with little user interaction required. If the user needs
mouse. to specify too many seeds, this is not much better than a manual
Just as in [Rother et al. 2004] it is usually sufficient to brush, segmentation. The performance of an algorithm can be assessed by
roughly, just part of a wrongly labelled area. Note that correction the amount of efforts required from the user. Thus, the results of
can be done not only after the segmentation process is finished, but our segmentation are shown along with seeds that we entered by
in ‘the middle’ of the segmentation computation. the user.
5. method by ourselves, but the results presented in the paper [Grady
and Funka-Lea 2004] and in the presentation poster are very close
to what we’ve been able to achieve on similar images.
Generally, methods based on graph cuts tend to produce
smoother (actually, shorter) boundary than our basic method. How-
ever our modified algorithm with controllable boundary smooth-
ness (see section 2.2) makes this difference less perceptible.
Several authors mention that segmentation methods, based on
minimum graph cuts tend to cut away small isolated image seg-
ments [Grady and Funka-Lea 2004], [Veksler 2000]. We performed
some investigation on how often this problem actually arises. In our
experience, this situation occurs only in cases when regional term
R(a) in eq. (1) in [Boykov and Jolly 2001] becomes insignificant
compared to boundary term B(A). One such example is shown in
figure 6, one can identify both smoother boundary of the graph cuts
segmentation, and isolated background segments on the right part
of the image. This can usually be avoided by tuning the relative
importance coefficient λ .
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 5: Generic photos segmentation results. Figure 6: Graph cuts and GrowCut segmentation difference for
same seeds. The Graph cuts produce smoother boundary, but has
problems with the background on the right image part, where two
4 Discussion isolated clusters instead of the whole region were segmented
As we have already emphasized in the introduction, our hope is It also should not be forgotten that both Random Walker and
to stir up the research community, motivating to search new ideas GrowCut are capable of solving multi-labelling tasks.
in the field of cellular automata and evolutionary computation and Random Walker boasts of creating segments connected to the
applying them to interactive image segmentation. initial seeds always. So as GrowCut does. Graph Cut potentially
We expect that results exceeding our current can be obtained. can (and sometimes does) create segments not connected to ini-
However, our current method can already compete with elegant tial seeds, if the regional term R(A) is stronger than boundary term
achievements of graph theory. In this section we will try to compare B(A). Same applies GrabCut. However, whether this an advantage
current top performing methods with ours and point out advantages or a drawback is probably the question of exact segmentation task.
and disadvantages of our scheme.
We take four methods - Graph Cuts, GrabCut, Random Walker
and GrowCut and compare them by several criteria: segmentation 4.2 Speed
quality, speed and convenience for the user. Accurately speaking,
The method speed is surely important. The reaction time to the
the methods differ seriously by the amount of information that they
user input should be small enough not to produce discomfort and
extract from the image. GrabCut uses most information - it com-
irritation, otherwise the method cannot be called interactive. An
putes the evolving color statistics of foreground and background
important measure is not only how fast the initial segmentation is
and takes into account color difference between neighboring pix-
achieved, but also how fast can the segmentation be recomputed,
els. Graph Cuts differs in using color statistics collected from the
when user adds more seeds to refine the initial segmentation.
user-specified seeds only, computed before the segmentation start.
The fastest are algorithms based on graph cuts. The initial seg-
Random Walker uses only intensity difference between neighboring
mentation computation time for Graph Cuts reported by the authors
pixels. Our current GrowCut variant also does not take advantage of
is ‘less than a second’ for ‘most 2D images (up to 512x512)’ on
object color statistics, however it can be easily extended to maintain
‘333MHz Pentium III’. This looks terrific, but judging from the
regions color statistics and use them in automaton evolution.
Intel processor manufacturer site, the frequency for Pentium III
processor family ranges from 450 MHz to 1.33 GHz. This sug-
4.1 Segmentation quality gests that actually running times are given for 1.33 GHz processor,
which is still a very good result. GrabCut processing time was given
Judging by our own experiments, Graph Cuts, GrabCut (we used for 450x300 image and equals to 0.9sec on 2.5GHz CPU with 512
our own implementation of both methods) and GrowCut are all able Mb RAM. Recomputing segmentation after new user-added seeds
to produce high quality segmentation in natural and medical im- is even faster than that. However, our own implementation of these
ages, so in this case mostly the amount user effort required should methods, based on Vladimir Kolmogorov’s publicly available code
be the measure of performance. However, there are some inter- [Boykov and Kolmogorov 2004] was not able to reach this speed.
esting features in these methods results, mentioned in next para- Random walker cannot boast of such speed, for the computation
graph. Concerning Random Walker, we’ve not been able to test the time for 256x256 image on dual Intel Xeon 2.4GHz processor with
6. 1GB RAM is almost 5 (4.831) seconds. No indications that adding
more seeds will need less time to compute a refined segmentation
were found in the method description. But again, Random Walker
solves a harder task of multi-labelling.
Our current implementation goes somewhere in between. It
takes about 4 seconds on 256x256 image on 2.5GHz processor.
However, this is the total automaton evolution time (till complete
stop). Usually the desired segmentation result is obtained much
earlier (about 1.5-2 seconds) and the later automaton evolution does
not change the segmentation and can be stopped by the user, when
he is satisfied with the result. Another important issue is that our
methods allows user intervention at any iteration step, so adding
additional seeds throughout the computation does not increase the
whole working time. Again - our method solves the task of multi-
labelling.
4.3 User convenience
In our opinion, most important performance measure is the con-
venience of the image segmentation instrument, based on the algo-
rithm. Or, in other words, how much user effort is needed to achieve
satisfying segmentation result.
The results reported by Boykov et al. [Boykov and Jolly 2001]
say that it takes from 1 to 3-4 minutes to segment an image with
Graph Cuts, depending on the scene. Our own experiments have
shown that usually it takes about 1-2 minutes for the user, armed
with GrowCut to segment an image like shown in figures 4, 5, 7.
5 Conclusion and future work
In this paper, we have proposed a novel algorithm for interactive im-
age segmentation, based in cellular automaton. Experiments have
shown, that user effort required for segmenting generic photos and
medical images is rather modest, no harder than in state-of-the-
art graph-based methods like Graph Cuts, GrabCut and Random
Walker.
Proposed method combines the advantages, distributed between
the mentioned methods (multi-label segmentation, N-dimensional
images processing, speed high enough for interactive segmenta-
tion), and offers more - algorithm extensibility by varying the au-
tomaton evolution rule, more interactivity and user control of the
segmentation process.
Future work will concentrate on exploring theoretical properties
of the algorithm, research into exploiting color statistics during seg- Figure 7: More photo segmentation results.
mentation, and practical issues like faster implementation.
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7 About the authors
Vladimir Veznevets is a research fellow at Graphics and Media
Laboratory of Moscow State Lomonosov University. He graduated
with honors Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cyber-
netics of Moscow State University in 1999. He received his PhD
in 2002 in Moscow State University also. His research interests
include image processing, pattern recognition, computer vision and
adjacent fields. His email address is vvp@graphics.cs.msu.ru.
Vadim Konouchine is a third year student of Moscow State
Lomonosov University, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and
Cybernetics. His research interests lie in the fields of statistics and
image processing. His email address is kvad@inbox.ru.