Texture image segmentation plays an important role in various computer vision tasks. In this paper, a convex texture image segmentation model is proposed. First, the texture features of Gabor and GLCM (gray level co-occurrence matrix) are extracted for original image. Then, the two kinds of texture features are fused together to effectively construct a discriminative feature space by concatenat...

The digital computer and computer networks have made it possible to search for and retrieve electronically stored documents in seconds, no matter where in the world they are stored. This is far from the reality for documents stored as paper copies. Therefore there is considerable interest in digitizing paper documents. To digitize existing paper documents, it is of great importance to be able t...

Segmentation of a colour image composed of different kinds of texture regions can be a hard problem, namely to compute for an exact texture fields and a decision of the optimum number of segmentation areas in an image when it contains similar and/or unstationary texture fields. In this work, a method is described for evolving adaptive procedures for these problems. In many real world applicatio...

The problem of textured image segmentation upon an unsupervised scheme is addressed. In the past two decades, there has been much interest in segmenting images involving complex random or structural texture patterns. However, most unsupervised segmentation techniques generally suffer from the lack of information about the correct number of texture classes. Therefore, this number is often assume...

We address the problem of segmenting a sequence of images of natural scenes into disjoint regions that are characterized by constant spatio-temporal statistics. We model the spatio-temporal dynamics in each region by Gauss-Markov models, and infer the model parameters as well as the boundary of the regions in a variational optimization framework. Numerical results demonstrate that – in contrast...

This paper describes the state of the art in segmentation algorithms of aerial images. Different approaches and object classes are described and their advantages and limitations are shown. First the advantage of multiple input data (e.g., color, infrared, DEM) and the information that can be derived from these sources is discussed. Besides sensor data, “synthetic” input images (e.g., using text...

An efficient and robust type of unsupervised multispectral texture segmentation method is presented. Single decorrelated monospectral texture factors are assumed to be represented by a set of local Gaussian Markov random field (GMRF) models evaluated for each pixel centered image window and for each spectral band. The segmentation algorithm based on the underlying Gaussian mixture (GM) model op...

Segmentation is the fundamental process which partitions a data space into meaningful salient regions. Image segmentation essentially affects the overall performance of any automated image analysis system thus its quality is of the utmost importance. Image regions, homogeneous with respect to some usually textural or colour measure, which result from a segmentation algorithm are analysed in sub...

2.1 CONTENT-BASED MEDICAL IMAGE RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES ....................................................... 3 2.2 BRAIN IMAGE SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES................................................................................ 4 2.2.1 Intensity-based segmentation methods.................................................................................. 4 2.2.2 Texture-based segmentation meth...

This paper proposes an improved natural image segmentation approach that is more effective, more controllable and more stable under various backgrounds than the traditional mean shift segmentation. The proposed approach employs following four new aspects: the changeable color bandwidth, the direct density searching, the global optimization for mode merging, and the elimination of texture patche...