Title :
Unsupervised Segmentation for Color Image Based on Graph Theory
Author :
Cao, Zhiguang ; Zhang, Xuexi ; Mei, Xuezhu
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Autom., Guangdong Univ. of Technol., Guangzhou
Abstract :
Image segmentation method based on graph theory is mainly used for gray images, and thresholding of segmentation should be predefined. Combining with entropy in information theory, this paper suggests an unsupervised method for color image segmentation. The image is mapped into an weighted undirected graph, the pixels are considered as nodes, the best thresholding is obtained by objective function of maximum weighted entropy to realize unsupervised segmentation. Experiment results show that the new algorithm ensures the color image segmentation excellent disturbance attenuation performance and better separability.
Keywords :
entropy; graph theory; image colour analysis; image segmentation; unsupervised learning; color image segmentation; entropy; graph theory; gray image; image thresholding; information theory; unsupervised image segmentation method; weighted undirected graph; Color; Concrete; Educational institutions; Entropy; Graph theory; Image sampling; Image segmentation; Information technology; Pixel; Tree graphs; MST; color image; graph theory; maximum weighted entropy; unsupervised segmentation;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Information Technology Application, 2008. IITA '08. Second International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3497-8
DOI :
10.1109/IITA.2008.143