Title :
Circle-Valued Nonlinear Diffusions with Application to Texture Segmentation
Author :
Dong, Xiaochun ; Pollak, Ilya
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
Abstract :
We introduce a novel nonlinear diffusion equation for images defined on an arbitrary graph and taking values on a circle. We use this nonlinear diffusion to develop an effective segmentation algorithm for such images. We apply this algorithm to segmenting texture images based on the orientation feature defined as the angle of the gradient.
Keywords :
graph theory; image segmentation; image texture; nonlinear equations; arbitrary graph; circle-valued nonlinear diffusion equation; gradient angle; segmentation algorithm; texture images; Color; Feature extraction; Image motion analysis; Image restoration; Image segmentation; Nonlinear equations; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical saturation; Pixel;
Conference_Titel :
Image Processing, 2006 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0480-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICIP.2006.312749
