Image Segmentation
Types of Image Segmentation
Semantic Segmentation
Instance Segmentation
Types of Image Segmentation Techniques based on the image properties:
Threshold Method.
Edge Based Segmentation.
Region-Based Segmentation.
Clustering Based Segmentation.
Watershed Based Method.
Artificial Neural Network Based Segmentation.
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2. Content
• Image Segmentation
• Types of Image Segmentation
• Semantic Segmentation
• Instance Segmentation
• Types of Image Segmentation Techniques based on the image
properties:
• Threshold Method.
• Edge Based Segmentation.
• Region Based Segmentation.
• Clustering Based Segmentation.
• Watershed Based Method.
• Artificial Neural Network Based Segmentation.
3. Image Segmentation
• Image Segmentation is finding the group of pixels that are similar.
• It is partitioning the image into various subgroups (of pixels) called Image
Objects.
• Assigning labels to pixels, and the pixels with the same label fall under single
category.
• It can reduce the complexity of the image to analyse the image becomes simpler.
• Using these labels, User can specify boundaries, draw lines, and separate the
most required objects in an image from unnecessary pixels label.
• Algorithm detects an instances, which provides about individual objects, and
hence the all the persons have different colors.
4. Types of Image Segmentation
1. Semantic Segmentation - In image 1, every pixel belongs to a particular class
(either background or person). Also, all the pixels belonging to a particular
class are represented by the same color (background as black and person as
pink).
2. Instance Segmentation - Image 2 has also assigned a particular class to each
pixel of the image. However, different objects of the same class have different
colors (Person 1 as red, Person 2 as green, background as black, etc.).
5. Why Image Segmentation is Needed?
1. Identify the objects from image.
2. Not only identifying, Also Provides more insight information about the
objects.
Applications
• facial recognition - identifying an employee to mark attendance
automatically.
• Medical industry - faster diagnosis, detecting diseases, tumors, cell and
tissue patterns from radiography, MRI, endoscopy, thermography,
ultrasonography, etc.
• Satellite images - identify various patterns, objects, geographical contours,
soil information etc., which can be used for agriculture, mining, geo-sensing,
etc.
• Robotics, like Robotic process automation (RPA), self-driving cars, etc.
6. Types of Image Segmentation Techniques based on the image
properties:
Two approaches:
1. Similarity Detection (Region based Approach)
1. Detecting similar pixels in an image based on a threshold, region growing, region
spreading, and region merging.
2. Machine learning algorithms like clustering relies on this approach of similarity
detection on an unknown set of features. It detects similarity based on a pre-defined
(known) set of features.
2. Discontinuity Detection (Boundary / Edge based Approach)
1. Searches for discontinuity.
2. Here, edges detected based on various metrics of discontinuity like intensity, color
etc.
3. E.g. Image Segmentation Algorithms like Edge Detection, Point Detection, Line
Detection
7. Types of Image Segmentation Techniques based on the image
properties:
1. Threshold Method.
2. Edge Based Segmentation.
3. Region Based Segmentation.
4. Clustering Based Segmentation.
5. Watershed Based Method.
6. Artificial Neural Network Based Segmentation.
8. Threshold based Segmentation
• Threshold value T is considered as a constant. But that approach may be ineffective
considering the amount of noise of the image. So, we can either keep it constant or
change it dynamically based on the image properties to obtain better results.
• Global Threshold - If we want to divide the image into two regions (object and
background), we define a single threshold value.
• Local Threshold - If we have multiple objects along with the background, we must
define multiple thresholds. These thresholds are collectively known as local threshold.
Based on that, thresholding is of the following types:
1. Simple Thresholding
• This technique replaces the pixels in an image with either black or white.
• If the intensity of a pixel (Ii,j) at position (i, j) is less than the threshold (T), then replace
that with black and if it is more, then we replace that pixel with white. This is a binary
approach to thresholding.
9. Threshold based Segmentation
2. Otsu’s Binarization
• In global thresholding, we had used an arbitrary value for threshold value and it
remains a constant.
• How can we define and determine the correctness of the selected threshold? A
simpler but rather inept method is to trial and see the error.
• Take an image histogram that has two peaks (bimodal image), one for the
background and one for the foreground.
• According to Otsu binarization, for that image, we can approximately take a
value in the middle of those peaks as the threshold value.
• So, it automatically calculates a threshold value from image histogram for a
bimodal image.
• The disadvantage is for images that are not bimodal, the image histogram has
multiple peaks, or one of the classes (peaks) present has high variance.
• However, Otsu’s Binarization is widely used in document scans, removing
unwanted colors from a document, pattern recognition etc.
10. Threshold based Segmentation
3. Adaptive Thresholding
• A global value as threshold value may not be good in all the conditions where an
image has different background and foreground lighting conditions in different
actionable areas.
• We need an adaptive approach that can change the threshold for various
components of the image.
• In this, the algorithm divides the image into various smaller portions and
calculates the threshold for those portions of the image.
• Hence, we obtain different thresholds for different regions of the same image.
• This in turn gives us better results for images with varying illumination.
• The algorithm can automatically calculate the threshold value.
• The threshold value can be the mean of neighborhood area or it can be the
weighted sum of neighborhood values where weights are a Gaussian window (a
window function to define regions).
11. Edge based Segmentation
• Edge detection is the process of locating edges in an image based on various
discontinuities in grey level, colour, texture, brightness, saturation, contrast etc.
• To further enhance the results, supplementary processing steps must follow to
concatenate all the edges into edge chains that correspond better with borders in
the image.
• Edges consist of meaningful features and contains significant information.
• It significantly reduces the size of the image and filters out information that may
be regarded as less relevant, preserving and focusing solely on the important
structural properties of an image for a business problem.
12. Edge based Segmentation
Edge detection algorithms are two categories:
• Gradient based methods and Gray Histograms.
• Basic edge detection operators like sobel operator, canny, Robert’s variable etc.
• These operators aid in detecting the edge discontinuities and hence mark the edge
boundaries.
• The end goal is to reach at least a partial segmentation using this process, where we group
all the local edges into a new binary image where only edge chains that match the
required existing objects or image parts are present.
13. Region based Segmentation
• Creating segments by dividing the image into various components having
similar characteristics.
• Region-based image segmentation techniques initially search for some seed
points – either smaller parts or considerably bigger chunks in the input image.
• Next, Either add more pixels to the seed points or further diminish or shrink
the seed point to smaller segments, and merge with other smaller seed points.
Hence, there are two basic techniques based on this method.
1. Region Growing
• It’s a bottom to up method where begin with a smaller set of pixel and start
accumulating or iteratively merging it based on certain pre-determined similarity
constraints.
• Region growth algorithm starts with choosing an arbitrary seed pixel in the
image and compare it with its neighboring pixels.
14. Region based Segmentation
• If there is a match or similarity in neighboring pixels, then they are added to the
initial seed pixel, thus increasing the size of the region.
• When we reach the saturation, the growth of that region cannot proceed further.
• So, the algorithm now chooses another seed pixel, which necessarily does not
belong to any region(s) that currently exists and start the process again.
• Region growing methods often achieve effective Segmentation that corresponds
well to the observed edges.
• But sometimes, when the algorithm lets a region grow completely before trying
other seeds, that usually biases the segmentation in favour of the regions which
are segmented first.
• To counter this effect, most of the algorithms begin with the user inputs of
similarities first, no single region is allowed to dominate and grow completely
and multiple regions are allowed to grow simultaneously.
15. Region based Segmentation
• Region growth, also a pixel based algorithm like thresholding but the major
difference is thresholding extracts a large region based out of similar pixels,
from anywhere in the image whereas region-growth extracts only the adjacent
pixels.
• Region growing techniques are preferable for noisy images, where it is highly
difficult to detect the edges.
2. Region Splitting and Merging
• The splitting and merging based segmentation methods use two basic techniques
done together in conjunction – region splitting and region merging – for
segmenting an image.
• Splitting involves iteratively dividing an image into regions having similar
characteristics and merging employs combining the adjacent regions that are
somewhat similar to each other.
16. Region based Segmentation
• A region split, unlike the region growth, considers the entire input image as the
area of business interest.
• Then, it would try matching a known set of parameters or pre-defined similarity
constraints and picks up all the pixel areas matching the criteria.
• This is a divide and conquers method as opposed to the region growth algorithm.
17. Clustering based Segmentation
• Clustering is dividing the population (data points) into a number of groups, such that data
points in the same groups are more similar to other data points in that same group than
those in other groups (clusters).
k-means clustering
• The k represents the number of clusters.
1. First, randomly select k initial clusters
2. Randomly assign each data point to any one of the k clusters
3. Calculate the centers of these clusters
4. Calculate the distance of all the points from the center of each cluster
5. Depending on this distance, the points are reassigned to the nearest cluster
6. Calculate the center of the newly formed clusters
7. Finally, repeat steps (4), (5) and (6) until either the center of the clusters does not
change or we reach the set number of iterations
• The key advantage of using k-means algorithm is that it is simple and easy to understand.
18. Watershed based Segmentation
• Watershed is a ridge approach, also a region-based method, which follows the concept of
topological interpretation.
• It considers the analogy of geographic landscape with ridges and valleys for various
components of an image. The slope and elevation of the topography are distinctly
quantified by the gray values of the respective pixels – called the gradient magnitude.
• Based on this 3D representation which is usually followed for Earth landscapes, the
watershed transform decomposes an image into regions that are called “catchment basins”.
• For each local minimum, a catchment basin comprises all pixels whose path of steepest
descent of gray values terminates at this minimum. The algorithm considers the pixels as a
“local topography” (elevation), often initializing itself from user-defined markers. Then,
the algorithm defines “basins” which are the minima points and hence, basins are flooded
from the markers until basins meet on watershed lines.
• The watersheds are formed that separate basins from each other. Hence the picture gets
decomposed because we have pixels assigned to each such region or watershed
19. Artificial Neural Network based Segmentation
• ANN uses AI to automatically process and identify the components of an image like
objects, faces, text, hand-written text etc. Convolutional Neural Networks are specifically
used to identify and process high-definition image data.
• An image is considered either as a set of vectors (colour annotated polygons) or a raster (a
table of pixels with numerical values for colors). The vector or raster is turned into simpler
components that represent the constituent physical objects and features in an image.
20. Morphological based Segmentation
• It is for analysing the geometric structure inherent within an image.
• In this, the output image pixel values are based on similar pixels of input image
with is neighbours and produces a new binary image.
• This method is also used in foreground background separation.
• The base of the morphological operation is dilation, erosion, opening, closing
expressed in logical AND, OR.
• This technique is mainly used in shape analysis and noise removal after
thresholding an image. Example: watershed algorithm.