Color image segmentation using vector angle-based region growing

Slawo Wesolkowski; Paul W. Fieguth

doi:10.1117/12.464654

6 June 2002 Color image segmentation using vector angle-based region growing

Slawo Wesolkowski, Paul W. Fieguth

Proceedings Volume 4421, 9th Congress of the International Colour Association; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.464654
Event: 9th Congress of the International Color Association, 2001, Rochester, NY, United States

Abstract

A new region growing color image segmentation algorithm is presented in this paper. This algorithm is invariant to highlights and shading. This is accomplished in two steps. First, the average pixel intensity is removed from each RGB coordinate. This transformation mitigates the effects of highlights. Next, region seeds are obtained using the Mixture of Principal Components algorithm. Each region is characterized using two parameters. The first is the distance between the region prototype and the candidate pixel. The second is the distance between the candidate pixel and its nearest neighbor in the region. The inner vector product or vector angle is used as the similarity measure which makes both of these measures shading invariant. Results on a real image illustrate the effectiveness of the method.

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Slawo Wesolkowski and Paul W. Fieguth "Color image segmentation using vector angle-based region growing", Proc. SPIE 4421, 9th Congress of the International Colour Association, (6 June 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.464654

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