Region-based color image segmentation scheme

Nicolaos Ikonomakis; Konstantinos N. Plataniotis; Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos

doi:10.1117/12.334627

28 December 1998 Region-based color image segmentation scheme

Nicolaos Ikonomakis, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos

Proceedings Volume 3653, Visual Communications and Image Processing '99; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.334627
Event: Electronic Imaging '99, 1999, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

A color image segmentation technique is presented for use in coding and/or compression of video-conferencing sequences. The proposed technique utilizes the perceptual HSI (hue, saturation, intensity) color space. The effectiveness of the scheme is improved by first splitting the pixels in the image into chromatic and achromatic regions using a classification method. A region growing scheme is then employed to each of the set of chromatic and achromatic pixels to segment the image. For the achromatic pixels a simple intensity difference metric is used. For the chromatic pixels three distance metrics were compared. Results are shown for three video- conferencing type images.

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Nicolaos Ikonomakis, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, and Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos "Region-based color image segmentation scheme", Proc. SPIE 3653, Visual Communications and Image Processing '99, (28 December 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.334627

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