基于前景增强与背景抑制的显著性物体检测

显著性物体检测的关键在于准确地突出前景区域,多数传统方法在处理复杂背景图像时效果不理想。针对上述问题,提出了一种基于前景增强与背景抑制的显著性物体检测方法。首先,利用简单线性迭代聚类(SLIC)将图像进行分割得到多个超像素区域,通过区域间的对比和边界信息分别获得图像的显著区域与背景种子,并通过计算得到基于区域间对比和基于背景的两幅显著图。然后,在两幅图像中运用Seam Carving和Graph based的图像分割法区分显著与非显著区域,进而得到前景增强与背景抑制模板。最终,融合两幅显著图与模板得到最终的显著图。在公开数据集MSRA 1000上对算法进行验证,结果表明,所提算法与7种主流算法相比具有更好的查准率和查全率。     

自适应区域生长算法在医学图像分割中的应用

提出一种通过计算种子点附近邻域统计信息,自适应改变生长标准参数用于医学图像分割的算法．在切片图像预处理过程中,考虑到体数据相邻切片之间高度的相关性,在相邻层之间采取高斯核滤波去除噪声,并通过各向异性滤波算法对该层切片进行滤波．实验结果表明,该算法可有效地提取出图像区域,具有较好的鲁棒性．     

基于改进区域生长的图像显著区域的提取方法

提出一种改进的区域生长方法来进行显著区域的提取。与以往基于像素或基于简单的NxN区域的方法不同．首先采用分水岭算法对原图像进行初始分割,利用显著图和区域的相对位置进行种子区域的自动选取,在生长过程中,将基于区域的相对边界强度,连接紧密程度与传统的区域颜色均值差异度准则相结合．构成新的区域可生长度评价函数。实验结果表明．该方法与现有算法相比,有效提高图像感兴趣区域提取的准确性。     

基于颜色和空间距离的显著性区域固定阈值分割算法

针对现有的基于空间域的显著性检测算法在分割显著性区域时需要依赖图像分割算法的不足,提出一种基于颜色和空间距离的显著性区域固定阈值分割算法。该算法首先对图像建立图像金字塔,并对每层的图像进行颜色量化和图像分块的预处理;然后利用颜色和空间距离计算得到显著性图;最后进行阈值分割,得到显著性区域。在MSRA1000公开数据集上的实验结果表明,该算法在精度、召回率和F测度方面的表现均优于现有的几种算法。因此,提出的算法在检测效果上优于现有的显著性区域检测算法,而且可以简单地分割出显著性区域。     

Expert vision systems integrating image segmentation and recognition processes

In this paper, we propose a prototype rule-based system which integrates segmentation and recognition processes to analyze and classify objects in an image. This is quite different from the traditional image analysis paradigm which treats segmentation as a prerequisite for recognition and interpretation. There are four basic components in the system, i.e., low-level image processing, feature computation, domain-independent, and domain-dependent subsystems. In the low-level image processing subsystem, various “nonpurposive” operators are employed to divide the image into uniform and homogeneous regions based on the information of intensities. The feature computation subsystem extracts features of each individual region. The domain-independent subsystem employs weak knowledge to filter out “obviously impossible” regions while the domain-dependent subsystem uses domain-specific knowledge to improve the results and finally recognize the objects of interest in the image. Two sets of images are used to demonstrate the capability and flexibility of this system. One set consists of distributor caps (auto parts) of different shapes. The other set is composed of tomographical image pairs acquired by MRI and PET.     

Unsupervised texture segmentation using Gabor filters

This paper presents a texture segmentation algorithm inspired by the multi-channel filtering theory for visual information processing in the early stages of human visual system. The channels are characterized by a bank of Gabor filters that nearly uniformly covers the spatial-frequency domain, and a systematic filter selection scheme is proposed, which is based on reconstruction of the input image from the filtered images. Texture features are obtained by subjecting each (selected) filtered image to a nonlinear transformation and computing a measure of “energy” in a window around each pixel. A square-error clustering algorithm is then used to integrate the feature images and produce a segmentation. A simple procedure to incorporate spatial information in the clustering process is proposed. A relative index is used to estimate the “true” number of texture categories.     

融合mean shift和区域显著性的彩色图像分割算法

提出了一种无监督的提取图像中显著区域的彩色图像分割算法。首先,运用mean shift算法对图像进行分割,得到初始的分割结果;然后,根据给出的区域显著性的定义和区域合并策略,对初始分割结果进行合并,得到最终的分割结果。仿真结果表明,对于大多数测试图像,该算法都能获得很好的分割结果,并且具有较高的运行效率。     

基于区域中心的交互式图像前景提取方法

图像分割是从图像中提取有意义的区域,是图像处理和计算机视觉中的关键技术。而自动分割方法不能很好地处理前景复杂的图像,对此提出一种基于区域中心的交互式图像前景提取算法。针对图像前景的复杂度,很难用单一的相似区域描述前景,文中采用多个区域中心来刻画目标区域。为提升图像分割的稳定性,给出基于超像素颜色、空间位置和纹理信息的相似性度量方法;为确保图像分割区域的连通性和准确性,定义了基于超像素的测地距离计算方法。使用基于测地距离的超像素局部密度,来分析图像的若干区域中心;基于用户交互的方式来分析前景的区域中心,得到图像前景。经过大量彩色图像的仿真表明,在分割过程中利用少量的用户交互信息,可有效提升图像分割的稳定性和准确性。     

A two step salient objects extraction framework based on image segmentation and saliency detection

Salient objects extraction from a still image is a very hot topic, as it owns a lot of useful applications (e.g., image compression, content-based image retrieval, digital watermarking). In this paper, targeted to improve the performance of the extraction approach, we propose a two step salient objects extraction framework based on image segmentation and saliency detection (TIS). Specially, during the first step, the image is segmented into several regions using image segmentation algorithm and the saliency map for the whole image is detected with saliency detection algorithm. In the second step, for each region, some features are extracted for the SVM algorithm to classify the region as a background region or a salient region twice. Experimental results show that our proposed framework can extract the salient objects more precisely and can achieve a good extraction results, compared with previous salient objects extraction methods.     

Watershed-based hierarchical SAR image segmentation

Watershed transformation is a powerful image segmentation tool recently developed in mathematical morphology. In order to segment images initially oversegmented by watershed transformation, two approaches are considered: one is the thresholding of the gradient image proposed by us which is capable of keeping more salient image contours; the other is the well known centroid linkage region growing algorithm which merges regions with certain statistical similarities. By choosing suitable thresholds in the two approaches, hierarchical image segmentation algorithms can be constructed. A Ratio of Averages (ROA) edge detector is proposed to replace the morphological edge detectors prior to watershed transformation when applied to Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Applications to SAR agricultural image segmentation with these hierarchical segmentation algorithms are presented. It is demonstrated that the algorithms are efficient in the segmentation of the SARimages and appropriate for land use applications when the land cover is made up of individual plots.     

基于分水岭和重叠率衡量的多级彩色图像分割

由于分水岭方法进行图像分割时经常是在梯度图像上进行,并经常产生过分割的结果,因此为克服图像过分割问题和提高分割的准确性,提出了一种基于分水岭和重叠率衡量分层融合策略的彩色图像分割新算法——HWO。该算法首先将RGB颜色空间转化到Lab颜色空间,并根据a、b维来提取统计2维直方图,同时在直方图上运用分水岭分割方法,通过对峰进行填充来得到图像的初步分割结果;然后将与填充对应的分割区域样本与高斯分布结合起来,对图像进行高斯混合模型假设下的参数估计;最后对模型与模型间进行重叠率衡量及分层区域融合,以得到最终的图像分割结果。实验中,首先采用训练图像集对算法涉及的两个参数进行确定,然后对测试图像集的分割效果和分割时间性能进行评估,评估是以标准的人工分割图像库为基准的。实验结果表明,该算法可解决过分割问题,其评估所得分准率及分全率综合衡量系数为0.609,而人工分割综合衡量系数为0.79,同时新方法的分割时间仅为传统方法的1/3,分割速度有了较大提高。     

基于Mean Shift和FDoG的图像卡通化渲染

针对现有图像卡通化渲染算法区域划分不明显或提取的边界不够连贯的问题,提出了一种基于Mean Shift和FDoG的图像卡通化渲染方法。该方法通过区域分割与边界处理相融合的手段,获取区域明晰、边界光滑连贯的卡通对象,同时结合亮度量化策略等后处理技术净化对象,最终获得具有卡通效果的图像。渲染算法采用Mean Shift技术对图像进行分割,通过设置合适的参数获取若干有意义的区域;引入FDoG算法思想对图像边界进行分析和提取;最后去除或合并视觉上的干扰区域,并参考卡通画的亮度分布特点对图像进行亮度量化,得到最终的卡通风格图像。方法实现简单,自动化程度较高,实验结果较理想。     

基于频域与空间域分析的显著区域检测算法

显著区域检测对于多种计算机视觉应用有所帮助,如图像分割、目标识别、图像检索及自适应压缩。为此,提出一个基于频域与空间域分析的显著区域检测算法。通过拥有不同尺寸窗口的中值滤波器对不显著的区域进行抑制,根据空间信息选择最佳的显著图。与 5个经典算法的比较实验结果表明,利用该算法得到的显著图既去除了背景,又突出了整个显著物体。     

基于区域生长的多尺度遥感图像分割算法

图像分割是图像解译的关键一步,仅仅利用光谱信息的传统分割方法已不能有效地对高分辨遥感图像进行分割。鉴于高分辨率遥感图像提供了地物光谱、形状和纹理等大量信息,文章提出了一种基于区域生长结合多种特征的多尺度分割算法。首先利用图像梯度信息选取种子点;其次综合高分辨率遥感图像地物的局部光谱信息和全局形状信息作为区域生长的准则进行区域生长。迭代这两个过程,直到所有区域的平均面积大于设定的尺度面积参数则停止生长。该算法用VC实现,实验结果表明该算法能获得不同尺度下的分割结果且分割效率高、分割效果好。     

Automated 3D region growing algorithm based on an assessment function

A new region growing algorithm is proposed for the automated segmentation of three-dimensional images. No initial parameters such as the homogeneity threshold or the seeds location have to be adjusted. The principle of our method is to build a region growing sequence by increasing the maximal homogeneity threshold from a very small value to a large one. On each segmented region, a 3D parameter that has been validated on a test image assesses the segmentation quality. This set of values called assessment function is used to determine of the optimal homogeneity criterion. Our algorithm was tested on 3D MR images for the segmentation of trabecular bone samples in order to quantify osteoporosis. A comparison to automated and manual thresholding showed that our algorithm performs better. Its main advantages are to eliminate isolated points due to the noise and to preserve connectivity of the bone structure.     

Perceptual hashing for SAR image segmentation

Image segmentation is an important step in the implementation of the interpretation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image due to speckle. This article proposes a SAR image segmentation method based on perceptual hashing. The new algorithm is divided into two phases. The first phase is to obtain initial regions with multi-thresholding based on histogram after reducing the speckle noise. The initial regions are used as input data. And the next phase is to merge regions according to the similarity between regions. In this phase, to segment SAR image effectively, the proposed hashing algorithm is used to obtain hash value and similarity between regions, which preserve the texture features of SAR images. In addition, we can obtain a smooth segmentation result by reducing the redundant information with principal component analysis. Furthermore, morphological methods are used to eliminate the uneven background in the segmentation results. These improvements make our algorithm more effective to segment the images with high speed. The experimental results of four real and one synthetic SAR images verify the efficiency of our algorithm.     

Specific object retrieval based on salient regions

In this paper, we present an image retrieval technique for specific objects based on salient regions. The salient regions we select are invariant to geometric and photometric variations. Those salient regions are detected based on low level features, and need to be classified into different types before they can be applied on further vision tasks. We first classify the selected regions into four types including blobs, edges and lines, textures, and texture boundaries, by using the correlations with the neigbouring regions. Then, some specific region types are chosen for further object retrieval applications. We observe that regions selected from images of the same object are more similar to each other than regions selected from images of different objects. Correlation is used as the similarity measure between regions selected from different images. Two images are considered to contain the same object, if some regions selected from the first image are highly correlated to some regions selected from the second image. Two data sets are employed for experiment: the first data set contains human face images of a number of different people and is used for testing the retrieval algorithm on distinguishing specific objects of the same category; and the second data set contains images of different objects and is used for testing the retrieval algorithm on distinguishing objects of different categories. The results show that our method is very effective on specific object retrieval.     

Segmentation and classification of brain images using firefly and hybrid kernel-based support vector machine

Abstract

Magnetic resonance imaging segmentation refers to a process of assigning labels to set of pixels or multiple regions. It plays a major role in the field of biomedical applications as it is widely used by the radiologists to segment the medical images input into meaningful regions. In recent years, various brain tumour detection techniques are presented in the literature. The entire segmentation process of our proposed work comprises three phases: threshold generation with dynamic modified region growing phase, texture feature generation phase and region merging phase. by dynamically changing two thresholds in the modified region growing approach, the first phase of the given input image can be performed as dynamic modified region growing process, in which the optimisation algorithm, firefly algorithm help to optimise the two thresholds in modified region growing. After obtaining the region growth segmented image using modified region growing, the edges can be detected with edge detection algorithm. In the second phase, the texture feature can be extracted using entropy-based operation from the input image. In region merging phase, the results obtained from the texture feature-generation phase are combined with the results of dynamic modified region growing phase and similar regions are merged using a distance comparison between regions. After identifying the abnormal tissues, the classification can be done by hybrid kernel-based SVM (Support Vector Machine). The performance analysis of the proposed method will be carried by K-cross fold validation method. The proposed method will be implemented in MATLAB with various images.     

The wedge filter technique for convex boundary estimation

This paper describes a method for segmentation of convex shaped image regions. The wedge filter technique first employs the converging squares algorithm [1] to locate a region of interest. Then a region oriented boundary estimation technique, called the wedge filter, is applied. This wedge filter entails angular filtering and subsampling, and boundary interpolation. The technique is more capable of segmenting noncircular shapes than some earlier methods based on the Hough transform. In addition, unlike many edge-based segmentation schemes, this method is relatively tolerant to edge gaps and to blurred or thick edges. This technique is tested on a number of synthesized images over a range of convex shapes, for different algorithm parameters, and under various conditions of region size and image noise. In addition, the technique has been applied to segmentation of liver cell nuclei in light microscope images of human liver tissue.     

面向RGBD图像的标记分水岭分割

目的 针对分水岭分割算法中存在的过分割现象及现有基于RGB图像分割方法的局限,提出了一种基于RGB图像和深度图像(RGBD)的标记分水岭分割算法。方法 本文使用物体表面几何信息来辅助进行图像分割,定义了一种深度梯度算子和一种法向量梯度算子来衡量物体表面几何信息的变化。通过生成深度梯度图像和法向量梯度图像,与彩色梯度图像进行融合,实现标记图像的提取。在此基础上,使用极小值标定技术对彩色梯度图像进行修正,然后使用分水岭算法进行图像分割。结果 在纽约大学提供的NYU2数据集上进行实验,本文算法有效抑制了过分割现象,将分割区域从上千个降至数十个,且获得了与人工标定的分割结果更接近的分割效果,分割的准确率也比只使用彩色图像进行分割提高了10%以上。结论 本文算法普遍适用于RGBD图像的分割问题,该算法加入了物体表面几何信息的使用,提高了分割的准确率,且对颜色纹理相似的区域获得了较好的分割结果。