Scalable multiresolution color image segmentation

Farin Akhlaghian Tab; Golshah Naghdy; Alfred Mertins

doi:10.1117/12.633217

24 June 2005 Scalable multiresolution color image segmentation

Farin Akhlaghian Tab, Golshah Naghdy, Alfred Mertins

Proceedings Volume 5960, Visual Communications and Image Processing 2005; 59604X (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.633217
Event: Visual Communications and Image Processing 2005, 2005, Beijing, China

Abstract

This paper presents a novel multiresolution image segmentation method based on the discrete wavelet transform and Markov Random Field (MRF) modelling. A major contribution of this work is to add spatial scalability to the segmentation algorithm producing the same segmentation pattern at different resolutions. This property makes it applicable for scalable object-based wavelet coding. To optimize segmentation at all resolutions of the wavelet pyramid, with scalability constraint, a multiresolution analysis is incorporated into the objective function of the MRF segmentation algorithm. Examining the corresponding pixels at different resolutions simultaneously enables the algorithm to directly segment the images in the YUV or similar color spaces where luminance is in full resolution and chrominance components are at half resolution. In addition to spatial scalability, the proposed algorithm outperforms the standard single and multiresolution segmentation algorithms, in both objective and subjective tests, yielding an effective segmentation that particularly supports scalable object-based wavelet coding.

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Farin Akhlaghian Tab, Golshah Naghdy, and Alfred Mertins "Scalable multiresolution color image segmentation", Proc. SPIE 5960, Visual Communications and Image Processing 2005, 59604X (24 June 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.633217

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