A Reduction Method of Over-Segmented Regions at Image Segmentation based on Homogeneity Threshold


KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 55-68, Oct. 2012
10.3745/KTSDE.2012.1.1.55,   PDF Download:

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel method to solve the problem of excessive segmentation out of the method of segmenting regions from an image using Homogeneity Threshold(H_T). The algorithm of the previous image segmentation based on H_T was carried out region growth by using only the center pixel of selected window. Therefore it was caused resulting in excessive segmented regions. However, before carrying region growth, the proposed method first of all finds out whether the selected window is homogeneity or not. Subsequently, if the selected window is homogeneity it carries out region growth using the total pixels of selected window. But if the selected window is not homogeneity, it carries out region growth using only the center pixel of selected window. So, the method can reduce remarkably the number of excessive segmented regions of image segmentation based on H_T. In order to show the validity of the proposed method, we carried out multiple experiments to compare the proposed method with previous method in same environment and conditions. As the results, the proposed method can reduce the number of segmented regions above 40% and doesn``t make any difference in the quality of visual image when we compare with previous method. Especially, when we compare the image united with regions of descending order by size of segmented regions in experimentation with the previous method, even though the united image has regions more than 1,000, we can``t recognize what the image means. However, in the proposed method, even though image is united by segmented regions less than 10, we can recognize what the image is. For these reason, we expect that the proposed method will be utilized in various fields, such as the extraction of objects, the retrieval of informations from the image, research for anatomy, biology, image visualization, and animation and so on.


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[IEEE Style]
G. T. Han, "A Reduction Method of Over-Segmented Regions at Image Segmentation based on Homogeneity Threshold," KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 55-68, 2012. DOI: 10.3745/KTSDE.2012.1.1.55.

[ACM Style]
Gi Tae Han. 2012. A Reduction Method of Over-Segmented Regions at Image Segmentation based on Homogeneity Threshold. KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering, 1, 1, (2012), 55-68. DOI: 10.3745/KTSDE.2012.1.1.55.