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13 June 1995 Neurofuzzy clustering approach for quadtree segmentation of images
Suryalakshmi Pemmaraju, Sunanda Mitra
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Proceedings Volume 2493, Applications of Fuzzy Logic Technology II; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.211808
Event: SPIE's 1995 Symposium on OE/Aerospace Sensing and Dual Use Photonics, 1995, Orlando, FL, United States
Abstract
Segmentation of images is used for several purposes such as estimation of the boundary of an object, shape analysis, contour detection, texture segmentation, and classification of objects within an image. Despite the existence of several methods and techniques for segmenting images, this task still remains a crucial problem. In our research we have developed a neural network-based fuzzy clustering technique to segment images into regions of specific interest using a quadtree segmentation approach. Since different regions of an image contain varying amount of detail, it is advantageous to segment the regions into blocks of different sizes depending on the content of information present within each block. As the global features of an image are distributed over a wider span of the image and the finer details are concentrated in limited regions, a quadtree segmentation algorithm can efficiently tackle the problem of segmenting images of all kinds. However, block-based techniques tend to introduce blocking artifacts and this problem can be avoided by using a neuro-fuzzy clustering scheme to merge the neighboring blocks of similar regions in a smooth fashion. The proposed algorithm has been applied to images of different kinds and has yielded promising results.
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Suryalakshmi Pemmaraju and Sunanda Mitra "Neurofuzzy clustering approach for quadtree segmentation of images", Proc. SPIE 2493, Applications of Fuzzy Logic Technology II, (13 June 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.211808
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KEYWORDS
Image segmentation
Image processing algorithms and systems
Fuzzy logic
Image analysis
Algorithm development
Image compression
Neural networks
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