This paper presents the image segmentation approach based on graph theory and threshold. Amongst the various segmentation approaches, the graph theoretic approaches in image segmentation make the formulation of the problem more flexible and the computation more resourceful. The problem is modeled in terms of partitioning a graph into several sub-graphs; such that each of them represents a meaningful region in the image. The segmentation problem is then solved in a spatially discrete space by the well-organized tools from graph theory. After the literature review, the problem is formulated regarding graph representation of image and threshold function. The boundaries between the regions are determined as per the segmentation criteria and the segmented regions are labeled with random colors. In presented approach, the image is preprocessed by discrete wavelet transform and coherence filter before graph segmentation. The experiments are carried out on a number of natural images taken from Berkeley Image Database as well as synthetic images from online resources. The experiments are performed by using the wavelets of Haar, DB2, DB4, DB6 and DB8. The results are evaluated and compared by using the performance evaluation parameters like execution time, Performance Ratio, Peak Signal to Noise Ratio, Precision and Recall and obtained results are encouraging.
Image segmentation by modified map ml estimationsijesajournal
Though numerous algorithms exist to perform image segmentation there are several issues
related to execution time of these algorithm. Image Segmentation is nothing but label relabeling
problem under probability framework. To estimate the label configuration, an iterative
optimization scheme is implemented to alternately carry out the maximum a posteriori (MAP)
estimation and the maximum likelihood (ML) estimations. In this paper this technique is
modified in such a way so that it performs segmentation within stipulated time period. The
extensive experiments shows that the results obtained are comparable with existing algorithms.
This algorithm performs faster execution than the existing algorithm to give automatic
segmentation without any human intervention. Its result match image edges very closer to
human perception.
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.
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF CLUSTERING BASED IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND OPTIMIZATION ...cscpconf
Partitioning of an image into several constituent components is called image segmentation.
Myriad algorithms using different methods have been proposed for image segmentation. Many
clustering algorithms and optimization techniques are also being used for segmentation of
images. A major challenge in segmentation evaluation comes from the fundamental conflict
between generality and objectivity. As there is a glut of image segmentation techniques
available today, customer who is the real user of these techniques may get obfuscated. In this
paper to address the above described problem some image segmentation techniques are evaluated based on their consistency in different applications. Based on the parameters used quantification of different clustering algorithms is done.
EDGE DETECTION IN SEGMENTED IMAGES THROUGH MEAN SHIFT ITERATIVE GRADIENT USIN...ijscmcj
In this paper, we propose a new method for edge detection in obtained images from the Mean Shift iterative algorithm. The comparable, proportional and symmetrical images are de?ned and the importance of Ring Theory is explained. A relation of equivalence among proportional images are de?ned for image groups in equivalent classes. The length of the mean shift vector is used in order to quantify the homogeneity of the neighborhoods. This gives a measure of how much uniform are the regions that compose the image. Edge detection is carried out by using the mean shift gradient based on symmetrical images. The difference among the values of gray levels are accentuated or these are decreased to enhance the interest region contours. The chosen images for the experiments were standard images and real images (cerebral hemorrhage images). The obtained results were compared with the Canny detector, and our results showed a good performance as for the edge continuity.
This document presents a novel approach for scale invariant partial shape matching of binary images. It discusses existing techniques for shape matching and their limitations, including problems related to scale, distortion, and the need for partial matching of open and closed contours. The proposed approach uses shape descriptors computed along open or closed contours to represent global shape. It then applies an alternative to dynamic time warping matching to compare shape representations in a way that is invariant to transformations and can match closed contours as a special case. The method is intended to improve on existing techniques by providing solutions to more matching problems through use of an extensive dataset and more flexible matching procedure.
There exists a plethora of algorithms to perform image segmentation and there are several issues related to
execution time of these algorithms. Image Segmentation is nothing but label relabeling problem under
probability framework. To estimate the label configuration, an iterative optimization scheme is
implemented to alternately carry out the maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation and the maximum
likelihood (ML) estimations. In this paper this technique is modified in such a way so that it performs
segmentation within stipulated time period. The extensive experiments shows that the results obtained are
comparable with existing algorithms. This algorithm performs faster execution than the existing algorithm
to give automatic segmentation without any human intervention. Its result match image edges very closer to
human perception.
Perceptual Weights Based On Local Energy For Image Quality AssessmentCSCJournals
This paper proposes an image quality metric that can effectively measure the quality of an image that correlates well with human judgment on the appearance of the image. The present work adds a new dimension to the structural approach based full-reference image quality assessment for gray scale images. The proposed method assigns more weight to the distortions present in the visual regions of interest of the reference (original) image than to the distortions present in the other regions of the image, referred to as perceptual weights. The perceptual features and their weights are computed based on the local energy modeling of the original image. The proposed model is validated using the image database provided by LIVE (Laboratory for Image & Video Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin) based on the evaluation metrics as suggested in the video quality experts group (VQEG) Phase I FR-TV test.
Incorporating Index of Fuzziness and Adaptive Thresholding for Image Segmenta...IJECEIAES
Binary Segmentation of an image played an important role in many image processing application. An image that was having no bimodal (or nearly) histogram accompanied by low-contrast was still a challenging segmentation problem to address. In this paper, we proposed a new segmentation strategy to images with very irregular histogram and had not significant contrast using index of fuzziness and adaptive thresholding. Index of fuzziness was used to determine the initial threshold, while adaptive thresholding was used to refine the coarse segmentation results. The used data were grayscale images from related papers previously. Moreover, the proposed method would be tested on the grayscale images of malaria parasite candidates from thickblood smear that had the same problem with this research. The experimental results showed that the proposed method achieved higher segmentation accuracy and lower estimation error than other methods. The method also effective proven to segment malaria parasite candidates from thickblood smears image.
Image segmentation by modified map ml estimationsijesajournal
Though numerous algorithms exist to perform image segmentation there are several issues
related to execution time of these algorithm. Image Segmentation is nothing but label relabeling
problem under probability framework. To estimate the label configuration, an iterative
optimization scheme is implemented to alternately carry out the maximum a posteriori (MAP)
estimation and the maximum likelihood (ML) estimations. In this paper this technique is
modified in such a way so that it performs segmentation within stipulated time period. The
extensive experiments shows that the results obtained are comparable with existing algorithms.
This algorithm performs faster execution than the existing algorithm to give automatic
segmentation without any human intervention. Its result match image edges very closer to
human perception.
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.
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF CLUSTERING BASED IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND OPTIMIZATION ...cscpconf
Partitioning of an image into several constituent components is called image segmentation.
Myriad algorithms using different methods have been proposed for image segmentation. Many
clustering algorithms and optimization techniques are also being used for segmentation of
images. A major challenge in segmentation evaluation comes from the fundamental conflict
between generality and objectivity. As there is a glut of image segmentation techniques
available today, customer who is the real user of these techniques may get obfuscated. In this
paper to address the above described problem some image segmentation techniques are evaluated based on their consistency in different applications. Based on the parameters used quantification of different clustering algorithms is done.
EDGE DETECTION IN SEGMENTED IMAGES THROUGH MEAN SHIFT ITERATIVE GRADIENT USIN...ijscmcj
In this paper, we propose a new method for edge detection in obtained images from the Mean Shift iterative algorithm. The comparable, proportional and symmetrical images are de?ned and the importance of Ring Theory is explained. A relation of equivalence among proportional images are de?ned for image groups in equivalent classes. The length of the mean shift vector is used in order to quantify the homogeneity of the neighborhoods. This gives a measure of how much uniform are the regions that compose the image. Edge detection is carried out by using the mean shift gradient based on symmetrical images. The difference among the values of gray levels are accentuated or these are decreased to enhance the interest region contours. The chosen images for the experiments were standard images and real images (cerebral hemorrhage images). The obtained results were compared with the Canny detector, and our results showed a good performance as for the edge continuity.
This document presents a novel approach for scale invariant partial shape matching of binary images. It discusses existing techniques for shape matching and their limitations, including problems related to scale, distortion, and the need for partial matching of open and closed contours. The proposed approach uses shape descriptors computed along open or closed contours to represent global shape. It then applies an alternative to dynamic time warping matching to compare shape representations in a way that is invariant to transformations and can match closed contours as a special case. The method is intended to improve on existing techniques by providing solutions to more matching problems through use of an extensive dataset and more flexible matching procedure.
There exists a plethora of algorithms to perform image segmentation and there are several issues related to
execution time of these algorithms. Image Segmentation is nothing but label relabeling problem under
probability framework. To estimate the label configuration, an iterative optimization scheme is
implemented to alternately carry out the maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation and the maximum
likelihood (ML) estimations. In this paper this technique is modified in such a way so that it performs
segmentation within stipulated time period. The extensive experiments shows that the results obtained are
comparable with existing algorithms. This algorithm performs faster execution than the existing algorithm
to give automatic segmentation without any human intervention. Its result match image edges very closer to
human perception.
Perceptual Weights Based On Local Energy For Image Quality AssessmentCSCJournals
This paper proposes an image quality metric that can effectively measure the quality of an image that correlates well with human judgment on the appearance of the image. The present work adds a new dimension to the structural approach based full-reference image quality assessment for gray scale images. The proposed method assigns more weight to the distortions present in the visual regions of interest of the reference (original) image than to the distortions present in the other regions of the image, referred to as perceptual weights. The perceptual features and their weights are computed based on the local energy modeling of the original image. The proposed model is validated using the image database provided by LIVE (Laboratory for Image & Video Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin) based on the evaluation metrics as suggested in the video quality experts group (VQEG) Phase I FR-TV test.
Incorporating Index of Fuzziness and Adaptive Thresholding for Image Segmenta...IJECEIAES
Binary Segmentation of an image played an important role in many image processing application. An image that was having no bimodal (or nearly) histogram accompanied by low-contrast was still a challenging segmentation problem to address. In this paper, we proposed a new segmentation strategy to images with very irregular histogram and had not significant contrast using index of fuzziness and adaptive thresholding. Index of fuzziness was used to determine the initial threshold, while adaptive thresholding was used to refine the coarse segmentation results. The used data were grayscale images from related papers previously. Moreover, the proposed method would be tested on the grayscale images of malaria parasite candidates from thickblood smear that had the same problem with this research. The experimental results showed that the proposed method achieved higher segmentation accuracy and lower estimation error than other methods. The method also effective proven to segment malaria parasite candidates from thickblood smears image.
FACE RECOGNITION USING PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS WITH MEDIAN FOR NORMALIZA...csandit
Recognizing Faces helps to name the various subjects present in the image. This work focuses
on labeling faces on an image which includes faces of humans being of various age group
(heterogeneous set ). Principal component analysis concentrates on finds the mean of the data
set and subtracts the mean value from the data set with an intention to normalize that data.
Normalization with respect to image is the removal of common features from the data set. This
work brings in the novel idea of deploying the median another measure of central tendency for
normalization rather than mean. The above work was implemented using matlab. Results show
that Median is the best measure for normalization for a heterogeneous data set which gives
raise to outliers.
The document describes a method for tracking objects of deformable shapes in images. It proposes representing the matching of a deformable template to an image as a minimum cost cyclic path in a product space of the template and image. An energy functional is introduced that consists of a data term favoring strong image gradients, a shape consistency term favoring similar tangent angles, and an elastic penalty. Optimization is performed using a minimum ratio cycle algorithm parallelized on GPUs. This provides efficient, pixel-accurate segmentation and correspondence between template and image curve. The method can be extended to 4D to segment and track multiple deformable anatomical structures in medical images.
Efficient 3D stereo vision stabilization for multi-camera viewpointsjournalBEEI
In this paper, an algorithm is developed in 3D Stereo vision to improve image stabilization process for multi-camera viewpoints. Finding accurate unique matching key-points using Harris Laplace corner detection method for different photometric changes and geometric transformation in images. Then improved the connectivity of correct matching pairs by minimizing
the global error using spanning tree algorithm. Tree algorithm helps to stabilize randomly positioned camera viewpoints in linear order. The unique matching key-points will be calculated only once with our method.
Then calculated planar transformation will be applied for real time video rendering. The proposed algorithm can process more than 200 camera viewpoints within two seconds.
Web image annotation by diffusion maps manifold learning algorithmijfcstjournal
Automatic image annotation is one of the most challenging problems in machine vision areas. The goal of this task is to predict number of keywords automatically for images captured in real data. Many methods are based on visual features in order to calculate similarities between image samples. But the computation cost of these approaches is very high. These methods require many training samples to be stored in memory. To lessen thisburden, a number of techniques have been developed to reduce the number
of features in a dataset. Manifold learning is a popular approach to nonlinear dimensionality reduction. In
this paper, we investigate Diffusion maps manifold learning method for webimage auto-annotation task.Diffusion maps
manifold learning method isused to reduce the dimension of some visual features. Extensive experiments and analysis onNUS-WIDE-LITE web image dataset with
different visual featuresshow how this manifold learning dimensionality reduction method can be applied effectively to image annotation.
A HYBRID MORPHOLOGICAL ACTIVE CONTOUR FOR NATURAL IMAGESIJCSEA Journal
Morphological active contours for image segmentation have become popular due to their low computational complexity coupled with their accurate approximation of the partial differential equations involved in the energy minimization of the segmentation process. In this paper, a morphological active contour which mimics the energy minimization of the popular Chan-Vese Active Contour without Edges is coupled with a morphological edge-driven segmentation term to accurately segment natural images. By using morphological approximations of the energy minimization steps, the algorithm has a low computational complexity. Additionally, the coupling of the edge-based and region-based segmentation techniques allows the proposed method to be robust and accurate. We will demonstrate the accuracy and robustness of the algorithm using images from the Weizmann Segmentation Evaluation Database and report on the segmentation results using the Sorensen-Dice similarity coefficient.
A HYBRID MORPHOLOGICAL ACTIVE CONTOUR FOR NATURAL IMAGESIJCSEA Journal
Morphological active contours for image segmentation have become popular due to their low computational complexity coupled with their accurate approximation of the partial differential equations
involved in the energy minimization of the segmentation process. In this paper, a morphological active contour which mimics the energy minimization of the popular Chan-Vese Active Contour without Edges is coupled with a morphological edge-driven segmentation term to accurately segment natural images. By using morphological approximations of the energy minimization steps, the algorithm has a low computational complexity. Additionally, the coupling of the edge-based and region-based segmentation techniques allows the proposed method to be robust and accurate. We will demonstrate the accuracy and robustness of the algorithm using images from the Weizmann Segmentation Evaluation Database and report on the segmentation results using the Sorensen-Dice similarity coefficient.
APPLICATION OF IMAGE FUSION FOR ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF AN IMAGEcscpconf
Advances in technology have brought about extensive research in the field of image fusion.
Image fusion is one of the most researched challenges of Face Recognition. Face Recognition
(FR) is the process by which the brain and mind understand, interpret and identify or verify
human faces.. Image fusion is the combination of two or more source images which vary in
resolution, instrument modality, or image capture technique into a single composite
representation. Thus, the source images are complementary in many ways, with no one input
image being an adequate data representation of the scene. Therefore, the goal of an image
fusion algorithm is to integrate the redundant and complementary information obtained from
the source images in order to form a new image which provides a better description of the scene
for human or machine perception. In this paper we have proposed a novel approach of pixel
level image fusion using PCA that will remove the image blurredness in two images and
reconstruct a new de-blurred fused image. The proposed approach is based on the calculation
of Eigen faces with Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
has been most widely used method for dimensionality reduction and feature extraction
The aim of this research is to find accurate solution for the Troesch’s problem by using high performance technique based on parallel processing implementation.
Design/methodology/approach – Feed forward neural network is designed to solve important type of differential equations that arises in many applied sciences and engineering applications. The suitable designed based on choosing suitable learning rate, transfer function, and training algorithm. The authors used back propagation with new implement of Levenberg - Marquardt training algorithm. Also, the authors depend new idea for choosing the weights. The effectiveness of the suggested design for the network is shown by using it for solving Troesch problem in many cases.
Findings – New idea for choosing the weights of the neural network, new implement of Levenberg - Marquardt training algorithm which assist to speeding the convergence and the implementation of the suggested design demonstrates the usefulness in finding exact solutions.
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research(IJCER)ijceronline
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The document describes a new algorithm for long-term robust visual tracking of moving objects in video sequences. The algorithm aims to overcome challenges such as geometric deformations, partial or total occlusions, and recovery after the target leaves the field of vision. It does not rely on a probabilistic process or require prior detection data. Experimental results on difficult video sequences demonstrate advantages over recent trackers. The algorithm can be used in applications like video surveillance, active vision, and industrial visual servoing.
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Rough Set based Natural Image Segmentation under Game Theory Frameworkijsrd.com
The Since past few decades, image segmentation has been successfully applied to number of applications. When different image segmentation techniques are applied to an image, they produce different results especially if images are obtained under different conditions and have different attributes. Each technique works on a specific concept, such that it is important to decide as to which image segmentation technique should for a given application domain. On combining the strengths of individual segmentation techniques, the resulting integrated method yields better results thus enhancing the synergy of the individual methods alone. This work improves the segmentation technique of combining results of different methods using the concept of game theory. This is achieved through Nash equilibrium along with various similarity distance measures. Using game theory the problem is divided into modules which are considered as players. The number of modules depends on number of techniques to be integrated. The modules work in parallel and interactive manner. The effectiveness of the technique will be demonstrated by simulation results on different sets of test images.
IRJET - Clustering Algorithm for Brain Image SegmentationIRJET Journal
The document presents a clustering algorithm for brain image segmentation using fuzzy c-means clustering. It aims to optimize the segmentation process and achieve higher accuracy rates when segmenting human MRI brain images. The fuzzy c-means algorithm is combined with rough set theory for segmentation. The algorithm segments images into homogeneous regions where adjacent regions are heterogeneous. This approach is evaluated on a set of brain images and demonstrates effectiveness as well as a comparison to other related algorithms. The goal of the algorithm is to simplify images and extract useful information for detecting brain tumors.
The purpose of this paper is to present a survey of image registration techniques. Registration is a fundamental task in image processing used to match two or more pictures taken, for example, at different times, from different sensors, or from different viewpoints. It geometrically aligns two images the reference and sensed images. Specific examples of systems where image registration is a significant component include matching a target with a real-time image of a scene. Various applications of image registration are target recognition, monitoring global land usage using satellite images, matching stereo images to recover shape for navigation, and aligning images from different medical modalities for diagnosis.
Disparity Estimation by a Real Time Approximation AlgorithmCSCJournals
This document summarizes an approximation algorithm for real-time disparity estimation of stereo images. The algorithm shrinks the left and right images 3 times to reduce computational time and search area. Disparity is estimated from the shrunk images and then extrapolated to reconstruct the original disparity image. Experimental results on standard stereo images show the algorithm reduces computational time by 76.34% compared to traditional window-based methods, with acceptable accuracy. Some accuracy is lost due to pixel quantization during shrinking and extrapolation, but the fast estimation of dense disparity makes the algorithm useful for applications requiring real-time performance.
Mr image compression based on selection of mother wavelet and lifting based w...ijma
Magnetic Resonance (MR) image is a medical image technique required enormous data to be stored and
transmitted for high quality diagnostic application. Various algorithms have been proposed to improve the
performance of the compression scheme. In this paper we extended the commonly used algorithms to image
compression and compared its performance. For an image compression technique, we have linked different
wavelet techniques using traditional mother wavelets and lifting based Cohen-Daubechies-Feauveau
wavelets with the low-pass filters of the length 9 and 7 (CDF 9/7) wavelet transform with Set Partition in
Hierarchical Trees (SPIHT) algorithm. A novel image quality index with highlighting shape of histogram
of the image targeted is introduced to assess image compression quality. The index will be used in place of
existing traditional Universal Image Quality Index (UIQI) “in one go”. It offers extra information about
the distortion between an original image and a compressed image in comparisons with UIQI. The proposed
index is designed based on modelling image compression as combinations of four major factors: loss of
correlation, luminance distortion, contrast distortion and shape distortion. This index is easy to calculate
and applicable in various image processing applications. One of our contributions is to demonstrate the
choice of mother wavelet is very important for achieving superior wavelet compression performances based
on proposed image quality indexes. Experimental results show that the proposed image quality index plays
a significantly role in the quality evaluation of image compression on the open sources “BrainWeb:
Simulated Brain Database (SBD) ”.
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.
IMAGE SEGMENTATION BY MODIFIED MAP-ML ESTIMATIONScscpconf
This document summarizes an image segmentation algorithm called Modified MAP-ML Estimations. It begins with an abstract describing the algorithm and its benefits of faster execution time compared to existing algorithms. It then reviews related work in image segmentation techniques and their limitations. The document describes the probabilistic model used in the algorithm, which formulates segmentation as a labeling problem. It explains the MAP estimation approach used to estimate label configurations, and the ML estimation used to estimate region properties. The algorithm iterates between these two estimations to perform segmentation.
This document summarizes an image segmentation algorithm called Modified MAP-ML Estimations. It begins with an abstract describing the algorithm and its benefits of faster execution time compared to existing algorithms. It then reviews related work in image segmentation techniques and their limitations. The document describes the probabilistic model used in the algorithm, which formulates segmentation as a labeling problem. It explains the MAP estimation approach used to estimate label configurations, defining energy functions minimized through graph cuts. ML estimation is then used to update the region feature estimates in an iterative process. In summary, this algorithm modifies an existing MAP-ML approach to achieve comparable segmentation results to other algorithms, but in a faster execution time without human intervention.
GRAPH PARTITIONING FOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING ISOPERIMETRIC APPROACH: A REVIEWDrm Kapoor
Graph cut is fast method performing a binary segmentation. Graph cuts proved to be a useful multidimensional optimization tool which can enforce piecewise smoothness while preserving relevant sharp discontinuities. This paper is mainly intended as an application of isoperimetric algorithm of graph theory for image segmentation and analysis of different parameters used in the algorithm like generating weights, regulates the execution, Connectivity Parameter, cutoff, number of recursions. We present some basic background information on graph cuts and discuss major theoretical results, which helped to reveal both strengths and limitations of this surprisingly versatile combinatorial algorithm.
MRI Image Segmentation Using Level Set Method and Implement an Medical Diagno...CSEIJJournal
Image segmentation plays a vital role in image processing over the last few years. The goal of image
segmentation is to cluster the pixels into salient image regions i.e., regions corresponding to individual
surfaces, objects, or natural parts of objects. In this paper, we propose a medical diagnosis system by using
level set method for segmenting the MRI image which investigates a new variational level set algorithm
without re- initialization to segment the MRI image and to implement a competent medical diagnosis
system by using MATLAB. Here we have used the speed function and the signed distance function of the
image in segmentation algorithm. This system consists of thresholding technique, curve evolution technique
and an eroding technique. Our proposed system was tested on some MRI Brain images, giving promising
results by detecting the normal or abnormal condition specially the existence of tumers. This system will be
applied to both simulated and real images with promising results.
MRIIMAGE SEGMENTATION USING LEVEL SET METHOD AND IMPLEMENT AN MEDICAL DIAGNOS...cseij
Image segmentation plays a vital role in image processing over the last few years. The goal of image segmentation is to cluster the pixels into salient image regions i.e., regions corresponding to individual surfaces, objects, or natural parts of objects. In this paper, we propose a medical diagnosis system by using level set method for segmenting the MRI image which investigates a new variational level set algorithm without re- initialization to segment the MRI image and to implement a competent medical diagnosis system by using MATLAB. Here we have used the speed function and the signed distance function of the image in segmentation algorithm. This system consists of thresholding technique, curve evolution technique and an eroding technique. Our proposed system was tested on some MRI Brain images, giving promising results by detecting the normal or abnormal condition specially the existence of tumers. This system will be applied to both simulated and real images with promising results
FACE RECOGNITION USING PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS WITH MEDIAN FOR NORMALIZA...csandit
Recognizing Faces helps to name the various subjects present in the image. This work focuses
on labeling faces on an image which includes faces of humans being of various age group
(heterogeneous set ). Principal component analysis concentrates on finds the mean of the data
set and subtracts the mean value from the data set with an intention to normalize that data.
Normalization with respect to image is the removal of common features from the data set. This
work brings in the novel idea of deploying the median another measure of central tendency for
normalization rather than mean. The above work was implemented using matlab. Results show
that Median is the best measure for normalization for a heterogeneous data set which gives
raise to outliers.
The document describes a method for tracking objects of deformable shapes in images. It proposes representing the matching of a deformable template to an image as a minimum cost cyclic path in a product space of the template and image. An energy functional is introduced that consists of a data term favoring strong image gradients, a shape consistency term favoring similar tangent angles, and an elastic penalty. Optimization is performed using a minimum ratio cycle algorithm parallelized on GPUs. This provides efficient, pixel-accurate segmentation and correspondence between template and image curve. The method can be extended to 4D to segment and track multiple deformable anatomical structures in medical images.
Efficient 3D stereo vision stabilization for multi-camera viewpointsjournalBEEI
In this paper, an algorithm is developed in 3D Stereo vision to improve image stabilization process for multi-camera viewpoints. Finding accurate unique matching key-points using Harris Laplace corner detection method for different photometric changes and geometric transformation in images. Then improved the connectivity of correct matching pairs by minimizing
the global error using spanning tree algorithm. Tree algorithm helps to stabilize randomly positioned camera viewpoints in linear order. The unique matching key-points will be calculated only once with our method.
Then calculated planar transformation will be applied for real time video rendering. The proposed algorithm can process more than 200 camera viewpoints within two seconds.
Web image annotation by diffusion maps manifold learning algorithmijfcstjournal
Automatic image annotation is one of the most challenging problems in machine vision areas. The goal of this task is to predict number of keywords automatically for images captured in real data. Many methods are based on visual features in order to calculate similarities between image samples. But the computation cost of these approaches is very high. These methods require many training samples to be stored in memory. To lessen thisburden, a number of techniques have been developed to reduce the number
of features in a dataset. Manifold learning is a popular approach to nonlinear dimensionality reduction. In
this paper, we investigate Diffusion maps manifold learning method for webimage auto-annotation task.Diffusion maps
manifold learning method isused to reduce the dimension of some visual features. Extensive experiments and analysis onNUS-WIDE-LITE web image dataset with
different visual featuresshow how this manifold learning dimensionality reduction method can be applied effectively to image annotation.
A HYBRID MORPHOLOGICAL ACTIVE CONTOUR FOR NATURAL IMAGESIJCSEA Journal
Morphological active contours for image segmentation have become popular due to their low computational complexity coupled with their accurate approximation of the partial differential equations involved in the energy minimization of the segmentation process. In this paper, a morphological active contour which mimics the energy minimization of the popular Chan-Vese Active Contour without Edges is coupled with a morphological edge-driven segmentation term to accurately segment natural images. By using morphological approximations of the energy minimization steps, the algorithm has a low computational complexity. Additionally, the coupling of the edge-based and region-based segmentation techniques allows the proposed method to be robust and accurate. We will demonstrate the accuracy and robustness of the algorithm using images from the Weizmann Segmentation Evaluation Database and report on the segmentation results using the Sorensen-Dice similarity coefficient.
A HYBRID MORPHOLOGICAL ACTIVE CONTOUR FOR NATURAL IMAGESIJCSEA Journal
Morphological active contours for image segmentation have become popular due to their low computational complexity coupled with their accurate approximation of the partial differential equations
involved in the energy minimization of the segmentation process. In this paper, a morphological active contour which mimics the energy minimization of the popular Chan-Vese Active Contour without Edges is coupled with a morphological edge-driven segmentation term to accurately segment natural images. By using morphological approximations of the energy minimization steps, the algorithm has a low computational complexity. Additionally, the coupling of the edge-based and region-based segmentation techniques allows the proposed method to be robust and accurate. We will demonstrate the accuracy and robustness of the algorithm using images from the Weizmann Segmentation Evaluation Database and report on the segmentation results using the Sorensen-Dice similarity coefficient.
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image being an adequate data representation of the scene. Therefore, the goal of an image
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reconstruct a new de-blurred fused image. The proposed approach is based on the calculation
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Rough Set based Natural Image Segmentation under Game Theory Frameworkijsrd.com
The Since past few decades, image segmentation has been successfully applied to number of applications. When different image segmentation techniques are applied to an image, they produce different results especially if images are obtained under different conditions and have different attributes. Each technique works on a specific concept, such that it is important to decide as to which image segmentation technique should for a given application domain. On combining the strengths of individual segmentation techniques, the resulting integrated method yields better results thus enhancing the synergy of the individual methods alone. This work improves the segmentation technique of combining results of different methods using the concept of game theory. This is achieved through Nash equilibrium along with various similarity distance measures. Using game theory the problem is divided into modules which are considered as players. The number of modules depends on number of techniques to be integrated. The modules work in parallel and interactive manner. The effectiveness of the technique will be demonstrated by simulation results on different sets of test images.
IRJET - Clustering Algorithm for Brain Image SegmentationIRJET Journal
The document presents a clustering algorithm for brain image segmentation using fuzzy c-means clustering. It aims to optimize the segmentation process and achieve higher accuracy rates when segmenting human MRI brain images. The fuzzy c-means algorithm is combined with rough set theory for segmentation. The algorithm segments images into homogeneous regions where adjacent regions are heterogeneous. This approach is evaluated on a set of brain images and demonstrates effectiveness as well as a comparison to other related algorithms. The goal of the algorithm is to simplify images and extract useful information for detecting brain tumors.
The purpose of this paper is to present a survey of image registration techniques. Registration is a fundamental task in image processing used to match two or more pictures taken, for example, at different times, from different sensors, or from different viewpoints. It geometrically aligns two images the reference and sensed images. Specific examples of systems where image registration is a significant component include matching a target with a real-time image of a scene. Various applications of image registration are target recognition, monitoring global land usage using satellite images, matching stereo images to recover shape for navigation, and aligning images from different medical modalities for diagnosis.
Disparity Estimation by a Real Time Approximation AlgorithmCSCJournals
This document summarizes an approximation algorithm for real-time disparity estimation of stereo images. The algorithm shrinks the left and right images 3 times to reduce computational time and search area. Disparity is estimated from the shrunk images and then extrapolated to reconstruct the original disparity image. Experimental results on standard stereo images show the algorithm reduces computational time by 76.34% compared to traditional window-based methods, with acceptable accuracy. Some accuracy is lost due to pixel quantization during shrinking and extrapolation, but the fast estimation of dense disparity makes the algorithm useful for applications requiring real-time performance.
Mr image compression based on selection of mother wavelet and lifting based w...ijma
Magnetic Resonance (MR) image is a medical image technique required enormous data to be stored and
transmitted for high quality diagnostic application. Various algorithms have been proposed to improve the
performance of the compression scheme. In this paper we extended the commonly used algorithms to image
compression and compared its performance. For an image compression technique, we have linked different
wavelet techniques using traditional mother wavelets and lifting based Cohen-Daubechies-Feauveau
wavelets with the low-pass filters of the length 9 and 7 (CDF 9/7) wavelet transform with Set Partition in
Hierarchical Trees (SPIHT) algorithm. A novel image quality index with highlighting shape of histogram
of the image targeted is introduced to assess image compression quality. The index will be used in place of
existing traditional Universal Image Quality Index (UIQI) “in one go”. It offers extra information about
the distortion between an original image and a compressed image in comparisons with UIQI. The proposed
index is designed based on modelling image compression as combinations of four major factors: loss of
correlation, luminance distortion, contrast distortion and shape distortion. This index is easy to calculate
and applicable in various image processing applications. One of our contributions is to demonstrate the
choice of mother wavelet is very important for achieving superior wavelet compression performances based
on proposed image quality indexes. Experimental results show that the proposed image quality index plays
a significantly role in the quality evaluation of image compression on the open sources “BrainWeb:
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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.
IMAGE SEGMENTATION BY MODIFIED MAP-ML ESTIMATIONScscpconf
This document summarizes an image segmentation algorithm called Modified MAP-ML Estimations. It begins with an abstract describing the algorithm and its benefits of faster execution time compared to existing algorithms. It then reviews related work in image segmentation techniques and their limitations. The document describes the probabilistic model used in the algorithm, which formulates segmentation as a labeling problem. It explains the MAP estimation approach used to estimate label configurations, and the ML estimation used to estimate region properties. The algorithm iterates between these two estimations to perform segmentation.
This document summarizes an image segmentation algorithm called Modified MAP-ML Estimations. It begins with an abstract describing the algorithm and its benefits of faster execution time compared to existing algorithms. It then reviews related work in image segmentation techniques and their limitations. The document describes the probabilistic model used in the algorithm, which formulates segmentation as a labeling problem. It explains the MAP estimation approach used to estimate label configurations, defining energy functions minimized through graph cuts. ML estimation is then used to update the region feature estimates in an iterative process. In summary, this algorithm modifies an existing MAP-ML approach to achieve comparable segmentation results to other algorithms, but in a faster execution time without human intervention.
GRAPH PARTITIONING FOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING ISOPERIMETRIC APPROACH: A REVIEWDrm Kapoor
Graph cut is fast method performing a binary segmentation. Graph cuts proved to be a useful multidimensional optimization tool which can enforce piecewise smoothness while preserving relevant sharp discontinuities. This paper is mainly intended as an application of isoperimetric algorithm of graph theory for image segmentation and analysis of different parameters used in the algorithm like generating weights, regulates the execution, Connectivity Parameter, cutoff, number of recursions. We present some basic background information on graph cuts and discuss major theoretical results, which helped to reveal both strengths and limitations of this surprisingly versatile combinatorial algorithm.
MRI Image Segmentation Using Level Set Method and Implement an Medical Diagno...CSEIJJournal
Image segmentation plays a vital role in image processing over the last few years. The goal of image
segmentation is to cluster the pixels into salient image regions i.e., regions corresponding to individual
surfaces, objects, or natural parts of objects. In this paper, we propose a medical diagnosis system by using
level set method for segmenting the MRI image which investigates a new variational level set algorithm
without re- initialization to segment the MRI image and to implement a competent medical diagnosis
system by using MATLAB. Here we have used the speed function and the signed distance function of the
image in segmentation algorithm. This system consists of thresholding technique, curve evolution technique
and an eroding technique. Our proposed system was tested on some MRI Brain images, giving promising
results by detecting the normal or abnormal condition specially the existence of tumers. This system will be
applied to both simulated and real images with promising results.
MRIIMAGE SEGMENTATION USING LEVEL SET METHOD AND IMPLEMENT AN MEDICAL DIAGNOS...cseij
Image segmentation plays a vital role in image processing over the last few years. The goal of image segmentation is to cluster the pixels into salient image regions i.e., regions corresponding to individual surfaces, objects, or natural parts of objects. In this paper, we propose a medical diagnosis system by using level set method for segmenting the MRI image which investigates a new variational level set algorithm without re- initialization to segment the MRI image and to implement a competent medical diagnosis system by using MATLAB. Here we have used the speed function and the signed distance function of the image in segmentation algorithm. This system consists of thresholding technique, curve evolution technique and an eroding technique. Our proposed system was tested on some MRI Brain images, giving promising results by detecting the normal or abnormal condition specially the existence of tumers. This system will be applied to both simulated and real images with promising results
An Experiment with Sparse Field and Localized Region Based Active Contour Int...CSCJournals
This paper discusses various experiments conducted on different types of Level Sets interactive segmentation techniques using Matlab software, on select images. The objective is to assess the effectiveness on specific natural images, which have complex image composition in terms of intensity, colour mix, indistinct object boundary, low contrast, etc. Besides visual assessment, measures such as Jaccard Index, Dice Coefficient and Hausdorrf Distance have been computed to assess the accuracy of these techniques, between segmented and ground truth images. This paper particularly discusses Sparse Field Matrix and Localized Region Based Active Contours, both based on Level Sets. These techniques were not found to be effective where object boundary is not very distinct and/or has low contrast with background. Also, the techniques were ineffective on such images where foreground object stretches up to the image boundary.
Medical Image Segmentation Based on Level Set MethodIOSR Journals
This document presents a new medical image segmentation technique based on the level set method. The technique uses a combination of thresholding, morphological erosion, and a variational level set method. Thresholding is applied to determine object pixels, followed by optional erosion to remove small fragments. Then a variational level set method is applied on the original image to evaluate the contour and segment objects. The technique is tested on various medical images and provides good segmentation results, though it struggles with complex images containing multiple distinct objects.
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.
A Survey on Image Segmentation and its Applications in Image Processing IJEEE
As technology grows day by day computer vision becomes a vital field of understanding the behavior of an image. Image segmentation is a sub field of computer vision that deals with the partition of objects into number of segments. Image segmentation found a huge application in pattern reorganization, texture analysis as well as in medial image processing. This paper focus on distinct sort of image segmentation techniques that are utilized in computer vision. Thus a survey has been created for various image segmentation techniques that describe the importance of the same. Comparison and conclusion has been created within the finish of this paper.
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A novel predicate for active region merging in automatic image segmentationeSAT Journals
Abstract Image segmentation is an elementary task in computer vision and image processing. This paper deals with the automatic image segmentation in a region merging method. Two essential problems in a region merging algorithm: order of merging and the stopping criterion. These two problems are solved by a novel predicate which is described by the sequential probability ratio test and the minimal cost criterion. In this paper we propose an Active Region merging algorithm which utilizes the information acquired from perceiving edges in color images in L*a*b* color space. By means of color gradient recognition method, pixels with no edges are clustered and considered alone to recognize some preliminary portion of the input image. The color information along with a region growth map consisting of completely grown regions are used to perform an Active region merging method to combine regions with similar characteristics. Experiments on real natural images are performed to demonstrate the performance of the proposed Active region merging method. Index Terms: Adaptive threshold generation, CIE L*a*b* color gradient, region merging, Sequential Probability Ratio Test (SPRT).
A HYBRID MORPHOLOGICAL ACTIVE CONTOUR FOR NATURAL IMAGESIJCSEA Journal
Morphological active contours for image segmentation have become popular due to their low
computational complexity coupled with their accurate approximation of the partial differential equations
involved in the energy minimization of the segmentation process. In this paper, a morphological active
contour which mimics the energy minimization of the popular Chan-Vese Active Contour without Edges is
coupled with a morphological edge-driven segmentation term to accurately segment natural images. By
using morphological approximations of the energy minimization steps, the algorithm has a low
computational complexity. Additionally, the coupling of the edge-based and region-based segmentation
techniques allows the proposed method to be robust and accurate. We will demonstrate the accuracy and
robustness of the algorithm using images from the Weizmann Segmentation Evaluation Database and
report on the segmentation results using the Sorensen-Dice similarity coefficient
Image Segmentation from RGBD Images by 3D Point Cloud Attributes and High-Lev...CSCJournals
The document describes an image segmentation algorithm that uses both color and depth features extracted from RGBD images captured by a Kinect sensor. The algorithm clusters pixels into segments based on their color, texture, 3D spatial coordinates, surface normals, and the output of a graph-based segmentation algorithm. Depth features help resolve illumination issues and occlusion that cannot be handled by color-only methods. The algorithm was tested on commercial building images and showed potential for real-time applications.
This document summarizes a research article that proposes using a Bayesian classifier to aid in level set segmentation for early detection of diabetic retinopathy. Level set segmentation is used to segment retinal images and detect small blood clots. A Bayesian classifier is applied to help propagate the level set contour and classify pixels as normal blood vessels or abnormal blood clots. The method was tested on retinal images and showed it could detect small clots of 0.02mm, indicating it may help detect early proliferation stages. Results demonstrated it outperformed other methods in detecting minute clots for early stage proliferation detection.
A Survey of Image Processing and Identification Techniquesvivatechijri
Image processing is always an interesting field as it gives enhanced visual data for human
simplification and processing of image data for transmission and illustration for machine preception. Digital
images are processed to give better solution using image processing. Techniques such as Gray scale
conversion, Image segmentation, Edge detection, Feature Extraction, Classification are used in image
processing.
In this paper studies of different image processing techniques and its methods has been conducted.
Image segmentation is the initial step in many image processing functions like Pattern recognition and image
analysis which convert an image into binary form and divide it into different regions. The technique used for
segmentation is Otsu’s method, K-means Clustering etc. For feature extraction feature vector in visual image is
texture, shape and color. Edge detector with morphological operator enhances the clarity of image and noise
free images. This paper also gives information about algorithm like Artificial Neural Network and Support
Vector Mechanism used for image classification. The image is categorized into the receptive class by an ANN
and SVM is used to compile all the categorized result. Overall the paper gives detail knowledge about the
techniques used for image processing and identification.
Speeded-up and Compact Visual Codebook for Object RecognitionCSCJournals
The well known framework in the object recognition literature uses local information extracted at several patches in images which are then clustered by a suitable clustering technique. A visual codebook maps the patch-based descriptors into a fixed-length vector in histogram space to which standard classifiers can be directly applied. Thus, the construction of a codebook is an important step which is usually done by cluster analysis. However, it is still difficult to construct a compact codebook with reduced computational cost. This paper evaluates the effectiveness and generalisation performance of the Resource-Allocating Codebook (RAC) approach that overcomes the problem of constructing fixed size codebooks that can be used at any time in the learning process and the learning patterns do not have to be repeated. It either allocates a new codeword based on the novelty of a newly seen pattern, or adapts the codebook to fit that observation. Furthermore, we improve RAC to yield codebooks that are more compact. We compare and contrast the recognition performance of RAC evaluated with two distinctive feature descriptors: SIFT and SURF and two clustering techniques: K-means and Fast Reciprocal Nearest Neighbours (fast-RNN) algorithms. SVM is used in classifying the image signatures. The entire visual object recognition pipeline has been tested on three benchmark datasets: PASCAL visual object classes challenge 2007, UIUC texture, and MPEG-7 Part-B silhouette image datasets. Experimental results show that RAC is suitable for constructing codebooks due to its wider span of the feature space. Moreover, RAC takes only one-pass through the entire data that slightly outperforms traditional approaches at drastically reduced computing times. The modified RAC performs slightly better than RAC and gives more compact codebook. Future research should focus on designing more discriminative and compact codebooks such as RAC rather than focusing on methods tuned to achieve high performance in classification.
Implementation of Fuzzy Logic for the High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images w...IOSR Journals
This document describes an implementation of fuzzy logic for high-resolution remote sensing image classification with improved accuracy. It discusses using an object-based approach with fuzzy rules to classify urban land covers in a satellite image. The approach involves image segmentation using k-means clustering or ISODATA clustering. Features are then extracted from the image objects and fuzzy logic is applied to classify the objects based on membership functions. The method was tested on different sensor and resolution images in MATLAB and showed improved classification accuracy over other techniques, achieving lower entropy in results. Future work planned includes designing an unsupervised classification model combining k-means clustering and fuzzy-based object orientation.
Super-resolution (SR) is the process of obtaining a high resolution (HR) image or
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matching algorithms used for motion estimation to obtain motion vectors between the
frames in Super-resolution. The implementation and comparison of two different types of
block matching algorithms viz. Exhaustive Search (ES) and Spiral Search (SS) are
discussed. Advantages of each algorithm are given in terms of motion estimation
computational complexity and Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR). The Spiral Search
algorithm achieves PSNR close to that of Exhaustive Search at less computation time than
that of Exhaustive Search. The algorithms that are evaluated in this paper are widely used
in video super-resolution and also have been used in implementing various video standards
like H.263, MPEG4, H.264.
Medial Axis Transformation based Skeletonzation of Image Patterns using Image...IOSR Journals
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Graph Theory Based Approach For Image Segmentation Using Wavelet Transform
1. Vikramsingh R. Parihar & Nileshsingh V. Thakur
International Journal of Image Processing (IJIP), Volume (8) : Issue (5) : 2014 255
Graph Theory Based Approach For Image Segmentation Using
Wavelet Transform
Vikramsingh R. Parihar vikramparihar05@gmail.com
Department of PG Studies (Electrical and Electronics Engg.)
Prof Ram Meghe Collge of Engineering and Management
Badnera-Amravati. 444701, INDIA
Nileshsingh V. Thakur thakurnisvis@rediffmail.com
Department of PG Studies (Electrical and Electronics Engg.)
Prof Ram Meghe Collge of Engineering and Management
Badnera-Amravati. 444701, INDIA
Abstract
This paper presents the image segmentation approach based on graph theory and threshold.
Amongst the various segmentation approaches, the graph theoretic approaches in image
segmentation make the formulation of the problem more flexible and the computation more
resourceful. The problem is modeled in terms of partitioning a graph into several sub-graphs;
such that each of them represents a meaningful region in the image. The segmentation problem
is then solved in a spatially discrete space by the well-organized tools from graph theory. After
the literature review, the problem is formulated regarding graph representation of image and
threshold function. The boundaries between the regions are determined as per the segmentation
criteria and the segmented regions are labeled with random colors. In presented approach, the
image is preprocessed by discrete wavelet transform and coherence filter before graph
segmentation. The experiments are carried out on a number of natural images taken from
Berkeley Image Database as well as synthetic images from online resources. The experiments
are performed by using the wavelets of Haar, DB2, DB4, DB6 and DB8. The results are evaluated
and compared by using the performance evaluation parameters like execution time, Performance
Ratio, Peak Signal to Noise Ratio, Precision and Recall and obtained results are encouraging.
Keywords: Segmentation, Graph Theory, Threshold, Wavelet Transform.
1. INTRODUCTION
Segmentation is the process of partitioning a digital image into set of pixels or regions. Among the
various existing segmentation approaches, graph theoretic approach found to have several good
features in practical applications. The graph theoretic approach organizes the image elements
into mathematically sound structures. It makes the formulation of the problem more flexible and
the computation more resourceful. The problem is modeled in terms of partitioning a graph into
several sub-graphs; such that each of them represents a meaningful object of interest in the
image. The segmentation problem is then solved in a spatially discrete space by the efficient tools
from graph theory [1].
All the existing graph based approaches involves the use of following terminologies. Let G = (V,
E) be a graph, where V= {v1, v2,…., vn} is a set of vertices corresponding to the image elements,
which might represent pixels or components. E is a set of edges connecting pairs of neighboring
vertices. Each edge (vi, vj) Є E has a corresponding weight ɯ (vi, vj) which measures a quantity
based on the property between the two vertices connected by that edge e.g., color, motion,
location or some other local attribute (in our case the difference in intensity). For image
segmentation, a segmentation S is a partition of V into components such that each component C
Є S corresponds to a connected component in a graph G’=(V’,E’), where V’⊆V, E’ ⊆ E.
2. Vikramsingh R. Parihar & Nileshsingh V. Thakur
International Journal of Image Processing (IJIP), Volume (8) : Issue (5) : 2014 256
A segmentation approach should capture perceptually important components or regions. Now
three problems arises as to provide description of what is perceptually important, to specify what
a developed segmentation approach does and precise definitions of the properties of a resulting
segmentation, in order to better understand the method as well as to facilitate the comparison of
different approaches. The segmentation approach should run at speeds similar to edge detection
or other low-level visual processing techniques in order to be of practical use. Also the visual
quality of segmentation is to be maintained at the same time.
This paper presents the image segmentation approach based on graph theory. The problem is
modeled in terms of partitioning a graph into several sub-graphs; such that each of them
represents a meaningful region in the image. The segmentation problem is then solved in a
spatially discrete space by the well-organized tools from graph theory. The boundaries between
the regions are determined as per the segmentation criteria and the segmented regions are
labeled with random colors. In presented approach, the image is preprocessed by discrete
wavelet transform and coherence filter before graph segmentation. The experiments are carried
out on a number of natural images taken from Berkeley Image Database as well as synthetic
images from online resources.
The organization of this paper is as follows. Section 2 includes the literature review. The section
concludes with our findings from the literature review and motivation behind identified problems.
Section 3 focuses on the formulation of the identified problem regarding the graph based
representation of image and threshold function. Section 4 is dedicated to the proposed approach;
where the working of the graph based algorithm for segmenting an image is described along with
its implementation and our contribution to the work. Section 5 emphasize on the experimental
results for a number of images along with comparison of the obtained results followed by the
thorough discussion about the experimental results. Section 6 addresses the conclusions along
with the future work.
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
The earliest graph-based approaches use fixed thresholds and local measures in computing
segmentation. Later the focus was moved towards segmenting the image based on minimum
spanning tree (MST) of the graph. For image segmentation, the edge weights in the graph are
based on the differences between pixel intensities. The segmentation criterion is to break MST
edges with large weights. The inadequacy of simply breaking large edges is that it would result in
the high variability region being split into multiple regions. The splitting of such highly variable
region is inappropriate.
Another class of graph based approaches is introduced [2-5] where the technique primarily
focuses on finding minimum cuts in a graph. The cut criterion is designed in order to minimize the
similarity between pixels that are being split. This bias is addressed with the normalized cut
criterion. These cut-based approaches to segmentation capture non-local properties of the image,
in contrast with the early graph-based approaches. However, they provide only a characterization
of each cut rather than of the final segmentation.
The normalized cut criterion [6-8] provides a significant advance over the previous works.
However, the normalized cut criterion also yields an NP-hard computational problem. In practice
these approximations are still fairly hard to compute, limiting the approach to relatively small
images.
Later the eigenvector-based approximations [9-10] are related to more standard spectral
partitioning approaches on graphs. However, all such approaches are too slow for many practical
applications. Also the eigen vector approach captures computationally important groupings or
clusters and not according to human perception. Hence, our focus is moved towards another
approach.
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Pedro F. Felzenszwalb and Daniel P. Huttenlocher [11] using a graph-based representation of the
image developed a segmentation algorithm and found that their approach satisfy global
properties. The algorithm runs in time nearly linear in the number of graph edges and is also fast
in practice. The specialty of the approach is that it is able to preserve detail in low-variability
image regions and ignore detail in high-variability regions. Further improvements in [11] are made
by Ming Zhang and Reda Alhajj [12] by re-defining the internal difference used to define the
property of the components and the threshold function, which is the important factor in
determining the size of the components. They claimed the efficiency and effectiveness of the
adjusted approach through experimentations. However, no performance evaluation parameter is
presented by both [11] and [12].
2.1 Our findings from the Literature Review
Fixed threshold and local measures cannot be employed for good segmentation as it has
many drawbacks.
Simply breaking the MST edges or edges with high weights would result in improper
segmentation.
The eigen-vector based segmentation approaches are two slow for practical applications
and the segments obtained by these approaches are computationally important but
perceptually important regions are not obtained.
The normalized cut criterion provides a significant advance over the previous works.
However, the normalized cut criterion also yields an NP-hard computational problem. In
practice these approximations are still fairly hard to compute, limiting the approach to
relatively small images or requiring computation times of several minutes.
Graph cuts algorithm based on iterated region merging requires lot of user interaction.
In the image segmentation based on mean shift and normalized cuts, the spatial structure
and the detailed edge information of an image are not preserved.
If the image is treated as an undirected weighted non-planar finite graph and image
segmentation is handled as graph partitioning problem, then the approach could not
segment the images having high overlapping of objects or very dark images.
If weighted Euclidean distance is used to calculate the edge weight, then the efficiency
becomes less.
When the segmentation is done based on the principle that in an Eulerian circuit, each
edge is traversed only once and further segregation in open and closed sub-graphs is
done by choosing critical vertices at a minimum directed distance, the algorithm itself
cannot trace the boundary in images. The input of traced boundary is, thus, to be given;
so more user interaction is required.
When the objects to be segmented contain similar colors with the background, Grab Cut
might fail to correctly segment them.
The iterated region merging-based graph cuts algorithm requires a lot of user interaction.
2.2 Motivation Behind Identified Problem
From the critical analysis of the related work, we find that graph partitioning problem is
categorized as NP-hard problem. Since image segmentation can be reduced to graph partitioning
therefore it is also a NP-hard problem. Though, the different approaches exist to perform the color
image segmentation, no particular approach produce the most efficient segmentation for the
given color image. Also there is no standard basis on which an image can be segmented.
Therefore, the scope of contribution exists in this area and this motivated us for problem
formulation. Our goal is to develop an image segmentation approach that can be broadly useful,
just like the other low-level techniques such as edge detection which are utilized in a wide range
of computer vision tasks. In order to achieve such broad utility, we believe it is important that a
segmentation approach should have the two properties. First is to capture perceptually important
groupings or regions, which often reflect global properties of the image. And second is to run the
segmentation approach at the speeds similar to edge detection or other low level process. We
have developed an approach for image segmentation considering these two factors.
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3. PROBLEM FORMULATION
This section presents the formulation of the identified problem, which involves the use of graph
based representation of an image along with threshold function. Although, the literature consists
of a various approaches to represent an image onto a graph, all the graph theoretic approaches
involve the same common terminologies. The problem of graph based segmentation can be
formulated as:
• The image is initially mapped on a graph G = (V, E), where, V= {v1, v2,…., vn} is a set of
vertices corresponding to the image elements, which might represent pixels or regions. E
is a set of edges connecting certain pairs of neighboring vertices.
• Each edge (vi ,vj) Є E should have a corresponding weight ɯ (vi ,vj) which measures a
certain quantity based on the property between the two vertices connected by that edge.
• For image segmentation, an image should be partitioned into mutually exclusive
components, such that each component C is a connected graph G’ = (V’,E’) where V’⊆ V,
E’⊆ E and E’ contains only edges built from the nodes of V’.
• In other words, non empty sets C1,…., Ck form a partition of the graph G such that Ci ∩Cj
= ϕ (i , j ϵ {1,2,…., k}, i ≠ j) and C1 ∪ …∪ Ck = G.
• Although, there are different aspects to measure the quality of segmentation but, in
general, it is believed that the elements in a component are supposed to be
homogeneous and the elements in different components to be heterogeneous.
• This means that edges between two vertices in the same component should have
relatively low weights, and edges between vertices in different components should have
higher weights.
• A threshold function is used to manage the extent to which the difference between the
components must be larger than the minimum internal difference within each component.
• An approach is to be produced which when there are more components than expected,
the threshold function should "encourage" merging. When there are fewer components
than expected, the threshold function should "discourage" merging.
• Before graph based segmentation, the image should pass through a filter which will
remove noise. However, the edges should be preserved for proper segmentation.
• To increase the speed of computation, some preprocessing should be done on image so
that the smaller insignificant regions will be merged and the computational complexity of
the graph based segmentation algorithm is thus reduced.
• The segmentation results should be evaluated based on appropriate performance
evaluation parameters.
• Finally, the segmentation result of the proposed approach is to be compared.
4. PROPOSED APPROACH
This section is subdivided into three parts wherein the paper presents the working of the graph
based representation approach that is incorporated in our work along with our approach. Section
4.1 primarily focuses on the study and working of the graph based representation of image. Our
proposed approach is introduced in Section 4.2. Section 4.3 provides detailed working of the
proposed approach.
4.1 Graph-Based Segmentation [11]
Let G = ( V , E ) be an undirected graph
Vertices vi Є V , the set of elements to be segmented
Edges ( vi , vj ) Є E corresponding to pairs of neighboring vertices.
Each edge ( vi , vj ) Є E has a corresponding weight ɯ ((vi , vj)) which is a non-negative
measure of the dissimilarity between neighboring elements vi & vj.
In the case of mentioned approach, the elements in V are pixels and the weight of an
edge is the difference in intensity between the two pixels connected by that edge.
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The systematic working of the graph based approach is demonstrated by means of flow chart,
prepared by us, as shown in Figure 1. The input image is initially mapped on a graph G = (V, E)
with n vertices and m edges. The output is a segmentation of V into components S = (C1 , ……,
Cr). The edges E are sorted into non decreasing edge weight order π = (o1, …. , om). The
segmentation is started with S
0
, where each vertex vi is in its own component. S
q
is constructed
from S
q-1
as shown below. The following process is repeated for q = 1, ….., m. Let vi and vj denote
the vertices connected by the q
th
edge in the ordering, i.e., oq = (vi , vj ) If vi and vj are in disjoint
components of S
q-1
and ɯ(oq) is small compared to the internal difference of both the
components, then the two components are merged.
FIGURE 1: Flowchart, prepared by us, for the graph based segmentation approach [11].
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In other words, the input image is considered as a graph where the pixels are vertices and the
edges connecting two pixels have some weights that are the difference between the intensity
values of the two pixels. These edges are initially sorted according to the non decreasing order.
The segmentation process is then initialized with the consideration that each vertices belong to its
own components. Now the edges connecting two vertices in the neighboring regions are
evaluated. Based on the threshold value, the predicate decides whether the two regions have to
be merged or to be considered as segmented. If the edges connecting two pixels of different
components have less value than the threshold, then the two regions are merged together. If the
edges connecting two pixels of different components have equal or larger value than the
threshold then the two regions remain separated and are obtained in the final segmentation
results. Similar calculation is performed for all the edges and thus the boundaries between the
two pixels are determined. The regions are finally labeled with random colors so as to distinguish
the adjacent regions. The above process can be interpreted with the help of the flowchart.
4.5 Proposed Approach
From the study of the graph based segmentation approach, it is found that changing the definition
to use the median weight, or some other property, in order to make the computation more robust,
makes the problem of finding a good segmentation NP-hard. Thus a small change to the
segmentation criterion vastly changes the difficulty of the problem. So changing the segmentation
criteria is not appropriate. So, while maintaining the segmentation criteria of [11], we carried out
experimentations by preprocessing the input image by using wavelets transforms like Haar, DB2,
DB4, DB6 and DB8 as well as filtering the image using coherence filter [13]. A number of natural
images and synthetic images are used for experimentations. The evaluation of the proposed
graph based segmentation approach which includes the execution time, Performance ratio (PR)
[14], Precision and Recall and Peak Signal to Noise ratio [PSNR].
4.5.1 Wavelet Transform
Wavelets have the special ability to examine signals simultaneously in both time and frequency.
In the DWT, an image is analyzed by passing it through an analysis filter bank. This process is
followed by a decimation operation. This analysis filter bank of a low pass and a high pass filter is
commonly used in image compression. A signal is split into two bands when it passes through
these filters. The coarse information of the signal is extracted by low pass filter which
corresponds to an averaging operation. The high pass filter extracts the detail information of the
signal which corresponds to a differencing operation. The output of the filtering operations is then
decimated by two.
By performing two separate one-dimensional transforms, a two-dimensional transform can be
accomplished. Here, initially, the image is filtered along the x-direction using low pass and high
pass analysis filters and decimated by two. On the left part of the matrix, low pass filtered
coefficients are stored and on the right part of the matrix, high pass filtered coefficients are
stored. Later, the same process is followed by filtering the sub-image along the y-direction and
decimated by two. On the lower part of the matrix, low pass filtered coefficients are stored and on
the upper part of the matrix, high pass filtered coefficients are stored. Finally, the image is split
into four bands. These bands are denoted by HH, LH, HL and LL after one-level decomposition.
The following process demonstrated how reconstruction of the image is carried out. Initially, the
image is upsampled by a factor of two on all the four subbands at the coarsest scale and filters
the subbands in each dimension. Then the four filtered subbands are sum up to reach the low-low
subband at the next finer scale. This process is repeated until the image is fully reconstructed.
Among the various wavelet transforms, we carried out experimentations by preprocessing the
image by using Haar transform, DB2 transform, DB4 transform, DB6 transform and DB8
transform and found that the execution speed is marginally increased and also the visual quality
of the segmentation output is maintained and even improved in many cases.
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4.5.2 Coherence Filter [13]
In order to compensate for digitization artifacts and removal of the noise inculcated in the images,
we used a Coherence filter to smooth the image slightly before computing the edge weights.
When the image is passed through a coherence filter, the coherence filter performs Anisotropic
Diffusion of the color or grayscale image. This process reduces the noise in an image while
preserving the region edges. Anisotropic diffusion is a technique that aims at reducing image
noise while preserving significant parts of the image details like edges, lines or other parameter
that are important for the analysis of the image. As a result, the images obtained after filtering
preserves linear structures while at the same time smoothing is made along these structures. A
generalization of the usual diffusion equation describes both these cases where the diffusion
coefficient is a function of image position and assumes a matrix value. In Anisotropic diffusion
each new image in the family is computed by applying the above mentioned generalized equation
to the previous image. As a result, anisotropic diffusion is an iterative process where a relatively
simple set of computation are used to compute each successive image in the family and this
process is continued until a sufficient degree of smoothing is obtained. Due to the above
mentioned advantages, we preprocessed the image by means of the coherence filter.
4.6 Working of the Proposed Approach
Flowchart for the proposed approach is shown in Figure 2. This flowchart helps in visualization of
the stepwise working of the proposed approach. Flowchart represents the process for color image
segmentation.
As a preprocessing step discrete wavelet transform is done on the images. In our
experimentations we used the single-level discrete 2-D wavelet transform (DWT2) which
performs single-level 2-D wavelet decomposition with respect to either a particular
wavelet or particular wavelet filters specified. We used the wavelets like Haar, DB2, DB4,
DB6 and DB8 for experimentations.
Before passing the image to the coherence filter, the gray scale component image for
each color plane, i.e. red, green and blue colors, is extracted by simple operation.
The grayscale color plane image is then given to the coherence filter where the noise is
removed while preserving the edges.
The graph based segmentation is done on this filtered image. Some input parameters
have to be initiated before segmentation is done. These parameters includes
1. neighbor_radius: the neighborhood radius of each pixel [1 by default]
2. Coefficient k: segmentation algorithm coefficient (large prefer large segmented
component)
3. min_size: the minimum size allowed for each segment.
The graph segmentation is then done on the three color planes respectively depending
upon the parameters provided.
As discussed earlier, the boundaries between the two regions are determined based on
the definition of predicate.
Gradient operator help visualize the boundaries between the components. The white
color indicates the presence of boundaries. The black color regions are the components
separated by the boundaries.
Morphological operations are done on the gradient image from where the contours are
obtained. Finally the contours obtained are more prominent as the insignificant
boundaries get eliminated.
The image is then labeled with random intensity values for each color plane. This image
is normalized for display purpose.
Two neighboring pixels are put in the same component when they appear in the same
component in all three of the color plane segmentations.
The contours obtained from the three color planes are intersected together to form the
final contours and the regions are determined based on these contours for color images.
The regions are finally assigned random colors so that the neighboring regions can be
differentiated.
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FIGURE 2: Flowchart of the proposed graph based segmentation approach for color images.
Blue
Plane
Image
Red
Plane
Image
Green
Plane
Image
Filtered
Image
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5. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
This section presents the experimental results and discussion on obtained results. Section 5.1
demonstrates the stepwise working of the proposed approach for the different wavelets. The
comparison on perceptual basis of various segmented images obtained by our approach is done
in Section 5.2. The evaluation and comparison of the obtained results is mentioned in Section
5.3. Thorough discussion about the obtained results is presented in Section 5.4.
The approach is implemented using (MATLAB 8.1.0.604) (R2013a). The experimentations are
carried out on Intel (R) Core (TM) 2 Duo T6570, 2.10 GHz processor. The RAM of the system
used is 3GB and ROM is 300GB. The operating system is 32-bit and the processor is x64
installed on Windows 8 platform. The experimentations are carried out on natural color and
grayscale images taken from Berkeley Image Database [15] as well as synthetic images [16–19]
taken from online resources.
5.1 Stepwise Output of the Proposed Approach
This section presents the stepwise results obtained from our proposed approach for each of the
wavelet used. The input image “296059.jpg” of size 481 x 321 taken from Berkeley Image
Database [15] is shown in Figure 3. The final contours obtained and the labeled images are also
displayed for each approach. A tabular representation is provided for the display of intermediate
results which are obtained at the mentioned stages. Finally the screenshots of the Graphical User
Interface (GUI), which is created in order to visualize the segmentation output in a more effective
manner, is presented. In the GUI, the input image, final segmented image, the graph segmented
images for each color planes as well as the stepwise results are displayed.
5.1.1 Stepwise results obtained when the image is not preprocessed by any wavelet
transform
The final contours obtained after segmentation when the image is not preprocessed by any
wavelet transform is as shown in Figure 4 (a). The segmented regions are then labeled as shown
in Figure 4 (b). The intermediate results obtained at various stages are provided in Figure 5.
Finally screenshot of GUI for the mentioned approach is provided in Figure 6.
FIGURE 3: The input image “296059.jpg” of size
481 x 321 taken from Berkeley Image Database.
FIGURE 4 (a): Final contours obtained after
intersecting the contours of the three color planes.
FIGURE 4 (b): Final Labeled Image showing Segmented Regions.
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Component Red Color Plane Green Color Plane Blue Color Plane
Grey scale
Component of
Input Image
given to
Coherence
Filter
Filtered Image
Gradient after
Graph Based
Segmentation
Contours
obtained
before
morphological
operation
Contours
obtained after
morphological
operation
Labeled
Image
FIGURE 5: Stepwise output of the proposed segmentation approach when the input image is not
preprocessed by any wavelet transforms.
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FIGURE 6: Screenshot of GUI showing the obtained results which help in visualizing the segmented output
of each color plane along with the labeled image, when the image is not preprocessed by any wavelet
transform.
The final contours obtained after segmentation when the image is preprocessed by discrete
wavelet transform using different wavelets are as shown in Figure 7 (a) through Figure 11 (a).
The segmented regions are then labeled as shown in Figure 7 (b) through Figure 11 (b).
FIGURE 7 (a): Final contours obtained after
intersecting the contours of the three color planes.
FIGURE 7 (b): Segmented image obtained after
preprocessing the image with Haar Transform.
FIGURE 8 (a): Final contours obtained after
intersecting the contours of the three color planes.
FIGURE 8 (b): Segmented image obtained after
preprocessing the image with DB2 Transform.
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FIGURE 9 (a): Final contours obtained after
intersecting the contours of the three color planes.
FIGURE 9 (b): Segmented image obtained after
preprocessing the image with DB4 Transform.
FIGURE 10 (a): Final contours obtained after
intersecting the contours of the three color planes.
FIGURE 10 (b): Segmented image obtained after
preprocessing the image with DB6 Transform.
FIGURE 11 (a): Final contours obtained after
intersecting the contours of the three color planes.
FIGURE 11 (b): Segmented image obtained after
preprocessing the image with DB8 Transform.
5.2 Contours and Labeled Images
Based on the proposed approach, we carried out experimentations on natural as well as synthetic
images and then comparative study is done based on the results obtained. The natural images
are taken from Berkeley Image Database. These images include color as well as grayscale
images both from the ‘Test’ and ‘Train’ datasets. We also experimented on some synthetic
images taken from the online resources. All these experimentations are carried out using
MATLAB (R2013a). Experimental results are shown in Figure 12 through Figure 15.
For all the experiments, we initialized the input parameters as given below:
neighbor_radius = 1 (the neighborhood radius of each pixel [1 by default])
Coefficient k = 350 (segmentation algorithm coefficient [large prefer large segmented
component])
min_size = 0.01 (the minimum size allowed for each segment).
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Image name ‘296059.jpg’ ‘135069.jpg’
Image
Ground Truth
Data for Edge
Detection
Contours
obtained
without
preprocessing
by any Wavelet
Transform
Contours
obtained after
DWT2 using
Haar Wavelet
Contours
obtained after
DWT2 using
DB2 Wavelet
Contours
obtained after
DWT2 using
DB4 Wavelet
Contours
obtained after
DWT2 using
DB6 Wavelet
Contours
obtained after
DWT2 using
DB8 Wavelet
FIGURE 12: Demonstration of Contour Images obtained for given images.
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Image name ‘143090.jpg’ ‘296007.jpg’
Image
Ground Truth
Data for Edge
Detection
Contours
obtained
without
preprocessing
by any Wavelet
Transform
Contours
obtained after
DWT2 using
Haar Wavelet
Contours
obtained after
DWT2 using
DB2 Wavelet
Contours
obtained after
DWT2 using
DB4 Wavelet
Contours
obtained after
DWT2 using
DB6 Wavelet
Contours
obtained after
DWT2 using
DB8 Wavelet
FIGURE 13: Demonstration of Contour Images obtained for given images.
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Image
name
‘45096.jpg’ ‘65019.jpg’ ‘113044.jpg’
Image
Ground
Truth data
for Edge
Detection
Segmented
Image
without
Wavelet
Transform
Segmented
Image after
Haar
Transform
Segmented
Image after
DB2
Transform
Segmented
Image after
DB4
Transform
Segmented
Image after
DB6
Transform
Segmented
Image after
DB8
Transform
FIGURE 14: Labeled images obtained after segmentation.
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Image
name
‘135069.jpg’ ‘143090.jpg’ ‘296007.jpg’
Image
Ground
Truth Data
for Edge
Detaction
Segmented
Image
without
Wavelet
Transform
Segmented
Image after
Haar
Transform
Segmented
Image after
DB2
Transform
Segmented
Image after
DB4
Transform
Segmented
Image after
DB6
Transform
Segmented
Image after
DB8
Transform
FIGURE 15: Labeled images obtained after segmentation.
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5.3 Evaluation and Comparison of Obtained Experimental Results
In this section, the evaluations of the obtained results are done. The comparison of the results is
also carried out. However, the comparison with the existing approach of [11] or [12] is not
attained. This is due to the fact that the authors in these papers did not evaluate their results.
They used the term “Human Perception” as to evaluate their result which is, in fact, a vague term.
However, we find that our segmentation results also produce regions that are meaningful.
We, here, used the following parameters used for evaluations of our results.
1. Time Required for Graph Based Segmentation
2. Peak Signal to Noise ratio (PSNR)
3. Performance Ratio (PR)
4. Precision and Recall.
1. Time Required for Graph Based Segmentation
The time required for graph based segmentation approach to execute after preprocessing the
image by DWT2 using the wavelets like Haar, DB2, DB4, DB6 and DB8 is shown in the Table 1.
Table 1 helps for comparative study of the results.
2. Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR)
The PSNR of the final contour is calculated with reference to the ground truth dataset for edge
detection. The PSNR is calculated using the following formula:
PSNR (dB) = 10 * log( ), where MSE = ∑ ∑
3. Performance Ratio (PR) [14]
PR is the ratio of true edges to false edges. Here true edges mean the edge pixels identified as
edges in the ground truth data and false edges means the non edge pixels identified as edges
and the edge pixels identified as non edges. The PR is calculated from the given formula
P R= x 100
4. Precision and Recall
Precision is the fraction of the edges that are obtained by our approach that are relevant with the
edges obtained from ground truth data. Whereas recall is the fraction of all relevant instances that
are retrieved. There are four cases which have to be first evaluated:
TN / True Negative: case is negative and predicted negative
TP / True Positive: case is positive and predicted positive
FN / False Negative: case is positive but predicted negative
FP / False Positive: case is negative but predicted positive
Now, Precision = TP and Recall = TP
TP + FP TP + FN
Experimental results are shown in Table 2 through Table 5 and Figure 16 through Figure 19.
Input Image Haar DB2 DB4 DB6 DB8
‘3096.jpg’ 0.46 0.46 0.47 0.48 0.48
‘42049.jpg’ 0.43 0.46 0.45 0.46 0.46
‘62096.jpg’ 0.45 0.46 0.46 0.47 0.48
‘108082.jpg’ 0.45 0.46 0.48 0.49 0.49
‘167062.jpg’ 0.45 0.46 0.45 0.47 0.47
TABLE 1 (a): Time required for segmentation of natural gray images in seconds
MSE
255
2
i=1 j=1
x*yx y
(|Aij-Bij|)
2
True Edges (Edge pixels identified as Edges)
False Edges (Non edge pixels identified as edges) +
(Edge pixels identified as Non-Edge pixels)
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TABLE 4: Precision of the Segmented Results.
Input Image HAAR DB2 DB4 DB6 DB8
‘45096.jpg’ 0.0499 0.0420 0.0472 0.0682 0.0446
‘65019.jpg’ 0.0428 0.0428 0.0308 0.0317 0.0300
‘113044.jpg’ 0.0248 0.0189 0.0272 0.0295 0.0189
‘135069.jpg’ 0.0610 0.0563 0.0282 0.0563 0.0751
‘143090.jpg’ 0.0449 0.0402 0.0393 0.0234 0.0327
‘296007.jpg’ 0.0337 0.0360 0.0422 0.0186 0.0219
‘296059.jpg’ 0.0404 0.0404 0.0461 0.0362 0.0643
‘306005.jpg’ 0.0274 0.0283 0.0365 0.0256 0.0292
TABLE 5: Recall of the Segmented Results.
FIGURE 16: Bar Graphs showing comparison
between the Performance Ratio of the results
obtained for different wavelets.
FIGURE 17: Bar Graphs showing comparison
between the PSNR of the results obtained for the
different wavelets.
Input Image HAAR DB2 DB4 DB6 DB8
‘45096.jpg’ 0.0022 0.0020 0.0023 0.0035 0.0019
‘65019.jpg’ 0.0024 0.0024 0.0017 0.0018 0.0016
‘113044.jpg’ 0.0009 0.0007 0.0010 0.0011 0.0007
‘135069.jpg’ 0.0026 0.0025 0.0012 0.0025 0.0028
‘143090.jpg’ 0.0035 0.0031 0.0030 0.0019 0.0026
‘296007.jpg’ 0.0038 0.0041 0.0047 0.0021 0.0025
‘296059.jpg’ 0.0026 0.0027 0.0030 0.0024 0.0042
‘306005.jpg’ 0.0014 0.0015 0.0019 0.0013 0.0015
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FIGURE 18: Bar Graphs showing comparison
between the Precision of the results obtained for the
different wavelets.
FIGURE 19: Bar Graphs showing comparison
between the Recall of the results obtained for the
different wavelets.
5.4 Discussion
The stepwise results obtained from each of the wavelet used for the image ‘296059.jpg’ helps us
to understand the proper working of the segmentation process. It also provides us the
visualization of the transformation of image at almost each and every level. The contours
mentioned are nothing but the boundaries detected by the segmentation process. Through the
stepwise observation, it is found that the contours obtained are inherently related with the true
edges of the image when compared with ground truth data for edge detection. This is justified by
analytical as well as perceptual evaluation.
Later, the segmentation output for various images are displayed which involves both the contours
obtained for the various wavelets along with the labeled images. From observations, it can be
identified that all the wavelets provided segmentation results which are perceptually important. It
is, however, very difficult to evaluate on the basis of perception the quality of obtained images.
This motivated us to use the performance evaluation parameters like Time, PR, PSNR, Precision
and Recall.
The Table 1 (a) through Table 1 (c) presented the execution time after the image is preprocessed
by the respective wavelets. From Table 1 it is very tough to suggest which of the approaches is
more preferable as the time differences is only of a few milliseconds. However, it is found that
time taken for graph segmentation after DWT2 using Haar wavelets required less time for almost
all the mentioned images.
The PR, PSNR, Precision and Recall parameters are generally used for edge detection. As our
approach is also incorporating the determination of edges between the regions, we applied these
parameters to the detected boundaries. The comparative study shows that all the wavelet images
performed in nearly an equal conduct as long as PR is concerned. The PR of DB2 is, however,
found to be better when the comparison is done based on the bar graphs and is closely followed
by DB6.
The PSNR is also an important parameter which can evaluate the experimental results. The
comparison of the obtained results for each of the wavelet used is done with the ground truth
image and the edges of both the images are compared. The higher the value of PSNR indicates
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the minimum is the value of MSE and ultimately the better is the obtained results. From the study
of the Table 3 and the bar graph shown in Figure 17, we found that the PSNR values of Haar
wavelet is more in few cases closely followed by DB2 wavelets.
The Precision and Recall have also emerged as one of the wisely used evaluation parameters.
The precision and recall are indirectly proportional to each other; wherein as the precision
increases the recall decreases and vice versa. Higher precision is preferable and so does lower
recall. The precision and recall parameters provide information about the relevancy between the
obtained results with respect to some standard quantity.
We compared the edges obtained by our approach to the ground truth data set of edge detection.
The precision and recall of each wavelet are shown in Table 4 and Table 5, plotted as bar graphs
shown in Figure 18 and Figure 19 for comparison. By observing the results we found that
precision of DB2 and Haar wavelets are comparatively higher. The recall of DB6 is minimum,
closely followed by DB4 and DB2.
6 . CONCLUSION AND FUTURE SCOPE
This section presents the conclusions drawn from the evaluation and comparison of experimental
results. The section concludes with future scope.
6.1 Conclusion
Based on the experimental results and discussion, the following conclusions are drawn:
The contours obtained from graph segmentation are relevant to the true edges of the
image. The observations regarding the edges are done in Figure 12 and Figure 13.
The algorithm captures perceptually important regions. This can be justified from the
Figure 14 and Figure 15 where the segmented results are compared with the input image
as well as ground truth data.
From the Table 1, it is found that time taken for graph segmentation after DWT2 using
Haar wavelets required less time for almost all the mentioned images.
The comparative study from the Table 2 shows that all the wavelet images performed in
nearly an equal conduct as long as PR is concerned. The PR of DB2 is, however, found
to be better when the comparison is done based on the bar graphs and is closely
followed by DB6.
The precision and recall of each wavelet are calculated and presented in the Table 4 and
Table 5 and plotted as bar graphs in Figure 18 and Figure 19 for comparison. By
observing the results, we found that precision of DB2 and Haar wavelets are
comparatively higher. The recall of DB6 is minimum, closely followed by DB4 and DB2.
6.2 Future Scope
This section provides the possible future directions to extend the presented work.
We, here, considered the wavelets of Haar, DB2, DB4, DB6 and DB8. In the future work,
one can carry out experimentations considering other families of wavelets for
preprocessing the image before segmentation and observe the results.
Also, after the contours are extracted, the regions are labeled with random colors. This
however may provide an improper segmentation results sometime as the neighboring
regions are assigned colors that may not be distinguished. So, instead of random colors,
a function can be developed that can assign largely varying colors to the neighboring
regions.
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Developed approach can be used in other image processing work, in particular, image
compression and image recognition.
Presented paper deals with the segmentation of the still images, but, can be extended for
the analysis of video. One can use the proposed approach as the basis for video
compression.
Self similarity check can be explored to have the better segmentation in combination with
the proposed approach.
Advanced non-classical optimization techniques, like, neural network and genetic
algorithm can be used to optimize the obtained results. From this point of view, one can
model the proposed approach in terms of the problem of neural network and genetic
algorithm.
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