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Serial Number: P1150927794
Title: Bayesian Colour Image Segmentation using Pixon and Adaptive Spatial Finite Mixture Model
Authors: M.Sujaritha and S. Annadurai
Abstract: A colour image segmentation using pixon-representation and a modified finite mixture model called Adaptive Spatial Finite Mixture Model is proposed in this paper. First the colour image is described using fewer degrees of freedoms where the characteristics of colour image are homogeneous and using more degrees of freedom where there is heterogeneity, which is called pixon- representation. An adaptive thresholding technique which uses quaternion moments is used to capture the regional homogeneity. Then, these image pixons are replaced by their corresponding features and adjacencies, thus forming a pixon-map of the observed image. The key idea to this approach is that this pixon map is embedded into an adaptive spatial finite mixture model under a Bayesian framework. Experimental results with Berkeley segmentation dataset, Corel database images and some natural images illustrate that the proposed method is much more effective and powerful in colour image segmentation than the other pixon-based approaches.
Keywords: Adaptive spatial, finite mixture model, pixons, colour image segmentation, quaternion moments, Bayesian estimation, multiresolution technique.
Journal/Conference: International Journal of Graphics, Vision and Image Processing
Volume: 9
Issue: 5
Submission Date: 7/3/2009 12:00:00 AM
Review Date: 8/11/2009 12:00:00 AM
Publishing Date: 10/12/2009 12:00:00 AM
Article Downloads: 460
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