Title :
Color segmentation by ordered mergings
Author :
Angulo, Jesís ; Serra, Jean
Author_Institution :
Centre de Morphologic Mathematique, Ecole des Mines de Paris, Valbonne, France
Abstract :
The paper deals with the use of the various color pieces of information for segmenting color images and sequences with mathematical morphology operators. It is divided in four parts. The first one is concerning the choice of the color space suitable for morphological processing. The choice of a connection which induces a specific segmentation is discussed. The authors then present the color segmentation approach which is based on a nonparametric pyramid of watersheds, with a comparative study of different color gradients. Another multiscale color segmentation algorithm is then introduced, relying on the merging of chromatic-achromatic partitions ordered by the saturation component.
Keywords :
gradient methods; image colour analysis; image segmentation; image sequences; mathematical morphology; chromatic-achromatic partitions; color gradients; color image segmentation; color space; image sequences; mathematical morphology operators; morphological processing; multiscale color segmentation algorithm; ordered mergings; saturation component; watersheds nonparametric pyramid; Color; Computer graphics; Equations; Floods; High level synthesis; Image processing; Image segmentation; Merging; Morphology; Partitioning algorithms;
Conference_Titel :
Image Processing, 2003. ICIP 2003. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7750-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICIP.2003.1246632
