• DocumentCode
    1420373
  • Title

    Histogram-based segmentation in a perceptually uniform color space

  • Author

    Shafarenko, L. ; Petrou, M. ; Kittler, J.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng. Inf. Technol. & Math., Surrey Univ., Guildford, UK
  • Volume
    7
  • Issue
    9
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    9/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1354
  • Lastpage
    1358
  • Abstract
    In this work, we present a segmentation algorithm for color images that uses the watershed algorithm to segment either the two-dimensional (2-D) or the three-dimensional (3-D) color histogram of an image. For compliance with the way humans perceive color, this segmentation has to take place in a perceptually uniform color space like the Luv space. To avoid oversegmentation, the watershed algorithm has to be applied to a smoothed histogram
  • Keywords
    adaptive filters; filtering theory; image colour analysis; image segmentation; mathematical morphology; visual perception; 2-D color histogram; 3-D color histogram; Luv color space; color images; histogram-based segmentation; image segmentation algorithm; perceptually uniform color space; smoothed histogram; watershed algorithm; Adaptive filters; Colored noise; Gaussian noise; Histograms; Humans; Image color analysis; Image segmentation; Machine vision; Morphological operations; Surface morphology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1057-7149
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/83.709666
  • Filename
    709666