Textile Image Segmentation through Region Action Graph and Novel Region Merging Strategy

Some image’s regions have unbalance information, such as blurred contour, shade, and uneven brightness. Those regions are called as ambiguous regions. Ambiguous region cause problem during region merging process in interactive image segmentation because that region has double information, both as object and background. We proposed a new region merging strategy using fuzzy similarity measurement for image segmentation. The proposed method has four steps; the first step is initial segmentation using mean-shift algorithm. The second step is giving markers manually to indicate the object and background region. The third step is determining the fuzzy region or ambiguous region in the images. The last step is fuzzy region merging using fuzzy similarity measurement. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed method is able to segment natural images and dental panoramic images successfully with the average value of misclassification error (ME) 1.96% and 5.47%, respectively.

Image segmentation is a prerequisite and important step of object based image analysis. The quality of image segmentation directly affects the subsequent object based classification and analysis. Region merging is an important step of many image segmentation methods. Most existing region merging methods use spectral data and a user-defined threshold. The determination of the threshold for region merging is usually done by a trial and error process. In this study, we proposed a new region merging method. The method views the task of deciding if two adjacent segments should be merged as a binary classification problem. The support vector machine (SVM) is adopted as the binary classifier used in this study. To collect appropriate training samples used in SVM classification, active learning strategy was adopted to obtain more informative training samples. The proposed method was validated by comparing with existing threshold based region merging method. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperformed the existing region merging method.

In low contrast images such as dental panoramic radiographs, the optimum parameters for automatic image segmentation is not easily determined. Semi-automatic image segmentation which is interactively guided by user is one alternative that could provide a good segmentation results. In this paper we proposed a novel strategy of region merging in interactive image segmentation using discriminant analysis on dental panoramic radiographs. A new similarity measurement among regions is introduced. This measurement merges regions which have minimal inter-class variance either with object or background cluster. Since the representative sample regions are selected by user, the similarity between merged regions with the corresponded samples could be preserved. Experimental results show that the proposed region merging strategy give a high segmentation accuracy both for low contrast and natural images.

Image segmentation consists of dividing an image domain into disjoint regions according to a characterization of the image within or in-between the regions. Therefore, segmenting an image is to divide its domain into relevant components. The efficient solution of the key problems in image segmentation promises to enable a rich array of useful applications. The current major application areas include robotics, medical image analysis, remote sensing, scene understanding, and image database retrieval. The subject of this book is image segmentation by variational methods with a focus on formulations which use closed regular plane curves to define the segmentation regions and on a level set implementation of the corresponding active curve evolution algorithms. Each method is developed from an objective functional which embeds constraints on both the image domain partition of the segmentation and the image data within or in-between the partition regions. The necessary conditions to optimize the objective functional are then derived and solved numerically. The book covers, within the active curve and level set formalism, the basic two-region segmentation methods, multiregion extensions, region merging, image modeling, and motion based segmentation. To treat various important classes of images, modeling investigates several parametric distributions such as the Gaussian, Gamma, Weibull, and Wishart. It also investigates non-parametric models. In motion segmentation, both optical flow and the movement of real three-dimensional objects are studied.

Image segmentation is crucial for multimedia applications. Multimedia databases utilize segmentation for the storage and indexing of images and video. Image segmentation is used for object tracking in the new MPEG-7 video compression standard. It is also used in video conferencing for compression and coding purposes. These are only some of the multimedia applications in image segmentation. It is usually the first task of any image analysis process, and thus, subsequent tasks rely heavily on the quality of segmentation. The proposed method of color image segmentation is very effective in segmenting a multimedia-type image into regions. Pixels are first classified as either chromatic or achromatic depending on their HSI color values. Next, a seed determination algorithm finds seed pixels that are in the center of regions. These seed pixels are used in the region growing step to grow regions by comparing these seed pixels to neighboring pixels using the cylindrical distance metric. Merging regions that are similar in color is a final means used for segmenting the image into even smaller regions.

A segmentation method for color images is presented in this work. A morphological unsupervised 2D multiband histogram clustering provides an initial coarse segmntation of the image. Region information is then used and a novel technique is introduced to simplify the Region Adjacency Graph by merging candidate regions until the stabilization of a segmentation criterion. Merged regions are refined by a color watershed. The whole method requires the definition of only one single parameter which acts as a kind of multiscale parameter.

Lightness biased cartoon-and-texture decomposition for textile image segmentation

This paper describes an efficient algorithm for color image segmentation based on a multiresolution application of a wavelet transform and watershed segmentation algorithm. The procedure toward complete segmentation consists of four steps: pyramid representation, image segmentation, region projection and region merging. First, pyramid representation creates multiresolution images using a wavelet transform. Second, image segmentation segments the lowest-resolution image of the pyramid using a watershed segmentation algorithm. Third, the segmented low-resolution image with label is projected into a full-resolution image (original image) by inverse wavelet transform. Finally, region merging merges the segmented regions using fuzzy similarity. Experimental results of the presented method can be applied to the segmentation of noise or degraded images as well as reduce over-segmentation.

Hybrid region merging method for segmentation of high-resolution remote sensing images

Medical image segmentation and reconstruction of prostate tumor based on 3D AlexNet

One of the most important goals in image segmentation is the process of separating the object parts from the image background. Image segmentation is also a fundamental stage in the development of other image applications such as object recognition, target tracking, computer vision, and biomedical image processing. Interactive image segmentation methods with additional user interaction are still popular in research. Interactive image segmentation aims to provide additional information through simple interactions, especially in images with complex objects. Interactive image segmentation with region merging processes has drawbacks, one of which is suboptimal region splitting due to soft color shades, blurred contours, and uneven lighting, referred to in this study as ambiguous regions. However, in the fuzzy region initialization stage after obtaining values from the marker process, there is a possibility of missing or suboptimal determination of fuzzy regions. This is because it only takes the highest gray level value for the background marker and the lowest gray level value for the object marker. In this study, fuzzy region merging using hierarchical clustering is proposed to find optimal initialization for fuzzy regions in image segmentation. Based on the experimental results, the proposed method can achieve optimal segmentation with an average misclassification error value of 2.62% for Natural Images and 9.33% for Dental Images.

In recent years, the machine learning field has been inundated with a variety of deep learning methods. Different deep learning model types, including recurrent neural networks (RNNs), convolutional neural networks (CNNs), adversarial neural networks (ANNs), and autoencoders, are successfully tackling challenging computer vision problems including image detection and segmentation in an unconstrained environment. Although image segmentation has received a lot of interest, there have been several new deep learning methods discovered with regard to object detection and recognition. An academic review of deep learning image segmentation methods is presented in this article. In this study, the major goal is to offer a sensible comprehension of the basic approaches that have already made a substantial contribution to the domain of image segmentation throughout the years. The article describes the existing state of image segmentation, and goes on to make the argument that deep learning has revolutionized this field. Afterwards, segmentation algorithms have been scientifically classified and optimized, each with their own special contribution. With a variety of informative narratives, the reader may be able to understand the internal workings of these processes more quickly.

Horizontal and vertical search artificial bee colony for image segmentation of COVID-19 X-ray images

Evolutionary algorithms are used in many engineering applications for optimization of problems that are often difficult to solve using conventional methods. One such problem is image segmentation. This task is used for object (contour) extraction from images to create sensible representation of the image. There are many image segmentation and optimization methods. This work is focused on selected evolutionary optimization methods. Namely, particle swarm optimization, genetic algorithm, and differential evolution. Our image segmentation method is inspired in algorithm known as k-means. The optimization function from k-means algorithm is replaced by evolutionary technique. We compare original k-means algorithm with evolutionary approaches and we show that our evolutionary approaches easily outperform the classical approach.

Textile Image Segmentation Using a Multi-Resolution Markov Random Field Model on Variable Weights in the Wavelet Domain