Title :
Unsupervised texture image segmentation
Author :
Mocofan, Mugur ; Caleanu, Catalin ; Lacrama, Dan ; Alexa, Florin
Author_Institution :
Politehnic Inst., Timisoara, Romania
Abstract :
This paper is focused on a hierarchical structure of modular self-organizing neural networks for unsupervised texture segmentation (sofm-nn). Input data consists of local information regarding textures (cooccurrence matrix elements) and the texture image itself. An unsupervised segmentation is done using a sofm-nn network and then the final segmentation is performed by another sofm-nn neural network using the previously obtained results. Experimental results show the efficiency of the proposed method
Keywords :
image segmentation; image texture; matrix algebra; self-organising feature maps; cooccurrence matrix elements; efficiency; hierarchical structure; modular self-organizing neural networks; sofm-nn; texturel information; unsupervised texture image segmentation; Artificial neural networks; Entropy; Feature extraction; Humans; Image processing; Image segmentation; Neural networks; Pixel; Shape; Solids;
Conference_Titel :
Neural Network Applications in Electrical Engineering, 2000. NEUREL 2000. Proceedings of the 5th Seminar on
Conference_Location :
Belgrade
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5512-1
DOI :
10.1109/NEUREL.2000.902393