19 February 2021 Constrained feature selection for semisupervised color-texture image segmentation using spectral clustering
Abderezak Salmi, Kamal Hammouche, Ludovic Macaire
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Abstract

Color-texture image segmentation remains a challenging problem due to extensive color-texture variability. Thus, the limited prior knowledge that is expressed by pairwise constraints can be exploited to guide the segmentation process. We propose a new semisupervised method by combining constrained feature selection and spectral clustering (SC) to perform color-texture image segmentation. The pairwise constraints are used by the constraint feature selection to choose the most relevant features among an available set of color and texture features. For this purpose, an innovative constraint score is developed to evaluate a subset of features at one time. A specific constrained SC algorithm involving the pairwise constraints is then applied to regroup the pixels into clusters. Experimental results on four benchmark datasets show that the proposed constraint score outperforms the main state-of-the-art constraint scores and that our semisupervised segmentation method is competitive compared with supervised, semisupervised, and unsupervised state-of-the-art segmentation methods.

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Abderezak Salmi, Kamal Hammouche, and Ludovic Macaire "Constrained feature selection for semisupervised color-texture image segmentation using spectral clustering," Journal of Electronic Imaging 30(1), 013014 (19 February 2021). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.30.1.013014
Received: 2 August 2020; Accepted: 3 February 2021; Published: 19 February 2021
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KEYWORDS
Image segmentation

Feature selection

Prototyping

Image processing algorithms and systems

Matrices

Feature extraction

Fourier transforms

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