A robust approach to segment desired object based on salient colors

  • Authors:
  • Jérôme Da Rugna;Hubert Konik

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire LIGIV, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France;Laboratoire LIGIV, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France

  • Venue:
  • Journal on Image and Video Processing - Color in Image and Video Processing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper presents a clustering-based color segmentation method where the desired object is focused on. As classical methods suffer from a lack of robustness, salient colors appearing in the object are used to intuitively tune the algorithm. These salient colors are extracted according to a psychovisual scheme and a peak-finding step. Results on various test sequences, covering a representative set of outdoor real videos, show the improvement when compared to a simple implementation of the same K-means oriented segmentation algorithm with ad hoc parameter setting strategy and with the well-known mean-shift algorithm.