An Algorithm for Noisy Image Segmentation

نویسندگان

  • Victor Olman
  • Edward C. Uberbacher
  • Ying Xu
چکیده

This paper presents a segmentation algorithm for gray-level images and addresses issues related to its performance on noisy images. It formulates an image segmentation problem as a partition of an image into (arbitrarily-shaped) connected regions to minimize the sum of graylevel variations over all partitioned regions, under the constraints that (1) each partitioned region has at least a specified number of pixels, and (2) two adjacent regions have significantly different “average” gray-levels. To overcome the computational difficulty of directly solving this problem, a minimum spanning tree representation of a gray-level image has been developed. With this tree representation, an image segmentation problem is effectively reduced to a tree partitioning problem, which can be solved efficiently. To evaluate the algorithm, we have studied how noise ise,andGaussian. the algorithm is stable and robust in the presence of these types of noise.

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تاریخ انتشار 2008