A new improved flexible segmentation algorithm using local cosine transform

To the problem of no overall optimal merger for one-way merger in the segmentation algorithm proposed by Wang et al., (1999), we propose a method of overall optimal search and merger. At the same time, for the problem of merging a segment which has non-value (value-segment) and a segment whose values are zeros entirely (zeros-segment) to a large segment in Wang´s method, we also propose a corresponding method to solve the problem. The main techniques use the local cosine transform (LCT) algorithm for a single small segment, rather than folding processing using its original neighboring data, instead of making zero extension, and then fold the each zero-extension segment. A great deal of numerical simulations validate that this new improved technique solves several problems of the binary-based segment algorithm and Wang´s segment algorithm; it not only obtains adapted effective segmentation results, but also there are not many redundancy segmentations