A new method for image segmentation
01 Nov 2009-Vol. 2, pp 123-125
TL;DR: A new segmentation method which is based on the morphology method, fuzzy K-means algorithm and some parts operator of the Canny algorithm, and the course of Canny operator that calculating the value and direction of grads, non-maxima suppression to the grad value and lag threshold process into the post-treatment process is introduced.
Abstract: On the basis of analyzing the blur images with noise, this paper presents a new segmentation method which is based on the morphology method, fuzzy K-means algorithm and some parts operator of the Canny algorithm. Because of the Canny's good performance on good detection, good localization and only one response to a single edge, we introduce the course of Canny operator that calculating the value and direction of grads, non-maxima suppression to the grad value and lag threshold process into our post-treatment process. Through experiments, it is demonstrated that the image segmentation method in this paper is very effective.
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Abstract: An efficient global-contour-guided binarization technique is proposed. First, a high-pass convolution processes the gray-level image to get its contour binary image. The gray-level image ...
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TL;DR: This paper presents an interactive scheme for merging similar and dissimilar regions of an image based on the similarity criteria depending upon comparing the mean values of both the regions to be merged.
Abstract: Image segmentation is an important task in computer vision and object recognition. Since fully automatic image segmentation is usually very hard for natural images, interactive schemes with a few simple user inputs are good solutions. In image segmentation the image is dividing into various segments for processing images. The complexity of image content is a bigger challenge for carrying out automatic image segmentation. On regions based scheme, the images are merged based on the similarity criteria depending upon comparing the mean values of both the regions to be merged. So, the similar regions are then merged and the dissimilar regions are merged together.
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Abstract: The aim of this study is to recognize the given image with the existing image based on the technique of image binarization by MATLAB tool and it is simulated using VHDL (Very High Speed IC Hardware Descriptive Language) using MODELSIM tool. This image binarization is based on LEGION (Locally Excitatory Globally inhibitory Oscillatory Network) Concept. In this study the algorithm finds an optimum threshold technique, the other by separating the image background and foreground pixels. This algorithm has superior performance in separating the images from background in comparison with the other threshold techniques.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the adaptive threshold algorithm for grayscale images which substantially enhances object extraction precision while maintaining robust calculation performance even for very large images was developed for feature analysis in low quality integrated circuit images obtained using optical microscopy equipment.
Abstract: In this paper we introduce adaptive threshold algorithm for grayscale images which substantially enhances object extraction precision while maintaining robust calculation performance even for very large images The algorithm was developed for feature analysis in low quality integrated circuit images obtained using optical microscopy equipment Our proposed adaptive segmentation algorithm gives standard deviation 5 times smaller than ordinary bi-level segmentation algorithm when comparing segmented object contour differences to manually segmented image This technique has been applied in industry
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TL;DR: The fundamental principles of Digital Image Processing are explained, as well as practical suggestions for improving the quality and efficiency of image processing.
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TL;DR: A novel method for measuring the orientation of an edge is introduced and it is shown that it is without error in the noise-free case, and the wreath product transform edge detection performance is shown to be superior to many standard edge detectors.
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