CIS Paper Review

Motivation: The paper investigated was Hernandez, S. E., K. E. Barner, et al. (2005). "Region merging using homogeneity and edge integrity for watershed-based image segmentation." Optical Engineering 44(1): 017004-017014. The premise of the paper was to discuss a hybrid method of the watershed transform for use in image segmentation. This paper was selected due to its relevance to our method of segmentation. We chose a watershed transform as well, and employed techniques similar to the ones used in this paper. However, we have only investigated the effects of using homogeneity methods, and therefore wanted to see the effects of combining this method with others. This paper also presented pre-processing methods, which we have also been investigating in an attempt to improve our results. Primarily, we wanted to investigate the effects of median filtering and edge integrity on segmentation results.