A Matlab-based Implementation of the Livewire Interactive Segmentation Tool
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Image segmentation is the process of delineating an image into foreground and background regions. Typically, the computer-assisted image segmentation techniques are classified as either fully automated or interactive segmentation methods. These interactive segmentation techniques are typically graph-driven and are further sub-categorized as either regionor boundary-based algorithms. Livewire is one of the earliest interactive image segmentation algorithm and has been extensively applied to image segmentation problems. As part of a course on Graphbased Methods for Image Analysis, an implementation of the Livewire was done in Matlab. This implementation is the focus of this report. Implementation details and results are provided. Note, there is no novel contribution in the report.
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