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Active regions for colour texture segmentation integrating region and boundary information

In this paper a colour texture segmentation method, which unifies region and boundary information, is proposed. The algorithm uses a coarse detection of the perceptual (colour and texture) edges of the image to adequately place and initialise a set of active regions. Colour texture of regions is modelled by the conjunction of non-parametric techniques of kernel density estimation (which allow to estimate the colour behaviour) and classical co-occurrence matrix based texture features. Therefore, region information is defined and accurate boundary information can be extracted to guide the segmentation process. Regions concurrently compete for the image pixels in order to segment the whole image taking both information sources into account. Furthermore, experimental results are shown which prove the performance of the proposed method

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Author: Muñoz Pujol, Xavier
Freixenet i Bosch, Jordi
Cufí i Solé, Xavier
Martí Bonmatí, Joan
Date: 2003
Abstract: In this paper a colour texture segmentation method, which unifies region and boundary information, is proposed. The algorithm uses a coarse detection of the perceptual (colour and texture) edges of the image to adequately place and initialise a set of active regions. Colour texture of regions is modelled by the conjunction of non-parametric techniques of kernel density estimation (which allow to estimate the colour behaviour) and classical co-occurrence matrix based texture features. Therefore, region information is defined and accurate boundary information can be extracted to guide the segmentation process. Regions concurrently compete for the image pixels in order to segment the whole image taking both information sources into account. Furthermore, experimental results are shown which prove the performance of the proposed method
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Citation: Muñoz, X., Freixenet, J., Cufi, X., i Marti, J. (2003). Active regions for colour texture segmentation integrating region and boundary information. International Conference on Image Processing : 2003 : ICIP 2003 : Proceedings, 3, 453-456. Recuperat 10 maig 2010, a http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1247279
ISBN: 0-7803-7750-8
ISSN: 1522-4880
Document access: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/2247
Language: eng
Publisher: IEEE
Collection: Reproducció digital del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.2003.1247279
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Is part of: © International Conference on Image Processing : 2003 : ICIP 2003 : Proceedings, 2003, vol. 3, p. 453-456
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Subject: Imatges -- Processament
Percepció de les formes
Form perception
Image processing
Title: Active regions for colour texture segmentation integrating region and boundary information
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