Edge-Based Color Image Segmentation Using Particle Motion in a Vector Image Field Derived from Local Color Distance Images

This paper presents an edge-based color image segmentation approach, derived from the method of particle motion in a vector image field, which could previously be applied only to monochrome images. Rather than using an edge vector field derived from a gradient vector field and a normal compressive vector field derived from a Laplacian-gradient vector field, two novel orthogonal vector fields were directly computed from a color image, one parallel and another orthogonal to the edges. These were then used in the model to force a particle to move along the object edges. The normal compressive vector field is created from the collection of the center-to-centroid vectors of local color distance images. The edge vector field is later derived from the normal compressive vector field so as to obtain a vector field analogous to a Hamiltonian gradient vector field. Using the PASCAL Visual Object Classes Challenge 2012 (VOC2012), the Berkeley Segmentation Data Set, and Benchmarks 500 (BSDS500), the benchmark score of the proposed method is provided in comparison to those of the traditional particle motion in a vector image field (PMVIF), Watershed, simple linear iterative clustering (SLIC), K-means, mean shift, and J-value segmentation (JSEG). The proposed method yields better Rand index (RI), global consistency error (GCE), normalized variation of information (NVI), boundary displacement error (BDE), Dice coefficients, faster computation time, and noise resistance.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:6

Enthalten in:

Journal of imaging - 6(2020), 7 vom: 16. Juli

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Phornphatcharaphong, Wutthichai [VerfasserIn]
Eua-Anant, Nawapak [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Color image segmentation
Edge vector field
Journal Article
Local color distance images
Normal compressive vector field
Particle motion

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Date Revised 07.11.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/jimaging6070072

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM330034308