Unsupervised color image segmentation using a dynamic color gradient thresholding algorithm

نویسندگان

  • Prashanth Balasubramanian
  • Eli Saber
  • Vladimir Misic
  • Eric Peskin
  • Mark Q. Shaw
چکیده

We propose a novel algorithm for unsupervised segmentation of color images. The proposed approach utilizes a dynamic color gradient thresholding scheme that guides the region growing process. Given a color image, a weighted vectorbased color gradient map is generated. Seeds are identified and a dynamic threshold is then used to perform reliable growing of regions on the weighted gradient map. Over-segmentation, if any, is addressed by a Similarity Measurebased region merging stage to produce the final segmented image. Comparative results demonstrate the effectiveness of this algorithm for color image segmentation.

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تاریخ انتشار 2008