Color segmentation through independent anisotropic diffusion of complex chromaticity and lightness

Author

Lucchese, Luca ; Mitra, Sanjit K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

746

Abstract

This paper presents a nets technique based on anisotropic diffusion for segmenting color images. This operation is accomplished through two independent anisotropic diffusion processes: one involving only the chromatic information, conveniently embedded in a complex function, and the other affecting the lightness information. The results of the two diffusions are separately segmented and their combination allows the color image to be eventually partitioned. We report on some experimental results verifying the effectiveness of such a technique

Keywords

image colour analysis; image representation; image segmentation; pattern clustering; quantisation (signal); anisotropic diffusion; chromatic information; clustering; color image segmentation; color representation; complex chromaticity; complex function; independent anisotropic diffusion; independent anisotropic diffusion processes; lightness information; quantization; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Clustering algorithms; Color; Filtering; Image processing; Image segmentation; Noise reduction; Smoothing methods; Solids;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Processing, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6725-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIP.2001.959153

Filename

959153