Title :
Implementation of a novel watershed algorithm
Author :
Hao, Zhu ; Wenyao, Liu ; Jintao, Wang
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Precision Instrum. & Opto-Electron. Eng., Tianjin Univ., China
Abstract :
Previous research about automatic vision systems applied to fruit imaging segmentation fails. Watershed transformation is a powerful morphological tool for image segmentation. However, the performance of segmentation methods based on watershed depends largely on gradient of the image. It´s not perfect to segment object with single-scale gradient. In this paper we present a multi-scale algorithm for computing morphological gradient images, after this transformation, there exists a strict causality between gradient watershed under different scales of geodesic reconstruction. The results demonstrate the superior performance of the watershed segmentation over the conventional techniques.
Keywords :
differential geometry; gradient methods; image reconstruction; image segmentation; mathematical morphology; geodesic reconstruction; image segmentation; morphological gradient image computing; multiscale algorithm; watershed transformation algorithm; Computer aided manufacturing; Educational institutions; Electromagnetic compatibility; Image edge detection; Image segmentation; Instruments; Laboratories; Surface morphology; Surface topography; Volcanoes; Catchment basin; Construction cell; Dilation; Geodesic distance; Geodesic influence zone; Machine vision; Multi-scale gradient operator; SKIZ; Structuring element; Watershed segmentation;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave, Antenna, Propagation and EMC Technologies for Wireless Communications, 2005. MAPE 2005. IEEE International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9128-4
DOI :
10.1109/MAPE.2005.1618125