A novel active contour model for unsupervised low-key image segmentation

Central European Journal of Engineering - Tập 3 - Trang 267-275 - 2013
Jiangyuan Mei1, Yulin Si1,2, Hamid Reza Karimi2, Huijun Gao1
1Research Institute of Intelligent Control and Systems, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, P. R. China
2Department of Engineering, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway

Tóm tắt

Unsupervised image segmentation is greatly useful in many vision-based applications. In this paper, we aim at the unsupervised low-key image segmentation. In low-key images, dark tone dominates the background, and gray level distribution of the foreground is heterogeneous. They widely exist in the areas of space exploration, machine vision, medical imaging, etc. In our algorithm, a novel active contour model with the probability density function of gamma distribution is proposed. The flexible gamma distribution gives a better description for both of the foreground and background in low-key images. Besides, an unsupervised curve initialization method is designed, which helps to accelerate the convergence speed of curve evolution. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm through comparison with the CV model. Also, one real-world application based on our approach is described in this paper.

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