Title :
Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on Improved Visual Attention Model and Region Growing
Author :
Hua, Zhen ; Li, Yewei ; Li, Jinjiang
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Inf. & Electron. Eng., Shandong Inst. of Econ. & Technol., Yantai, China
Abstract :
The essence of image segmentation is a based on some properties the process for pixel classification. Firstly, three typical methods in image segmentation methods are outlined and their characteristic is analyzed in this paper. The traditional visual attention model is described and improved in this paper. The input image gray value and edge features are extracted by Gabor filters and the Gauss - Laplace operator, gray feature maps and the edge feature maps are got respectively, then interest regions image is obtained by linear combination. The interest region in interest region image is selected by the dynamic neural network methods in artificial intelligence. The limit scope of regional growth is provided improved visual attention model algorithm identified interest region, the binary image is got by setting gray-value. At last, image segmentation is achieved by image segmentation algorithm based improved visual attention model and region growing. Experimental results validate that this methods not only achieve image segmentation, but also accurately and automatically achieve interest region segmentation, improve the quality of the segmentation, and has good robustness.
Keywords :
artificial intelligence; edge detection; feature extraction; grey systems; image segmentation; Gabor filters; Gauss Laplace operator; artificial intelligence; dynamic neural network; edge feature extraction; image gray value; image segmentation algorithm; pixel classification; visual attention model; Feature extraction; Gabor filters; Image edge detection; Image segmentation; Laplace equations; Pixel; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2010 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3708-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3709-2
DOI :
10.1109/WICOM.2010.5601008