A survey of thresholding techniques
Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing
Quantitative evaluation of color image segmentation results
Pattern Recognition Letters
SEAC and the Start of Image Processing at the National Bureau of Standards
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
An empirical approach to grouping and segmentation
An empirical approach to grouping and segmentation
Tracking Multiple Humans in Complex Situations
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Genetic fusion: application to multi-components image segmentation
ICASSP '00 Proceedings of the Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2000. on IEEE International Conference - Volume 04
Toward Objective Evaluation of Image Segmentation Algorithms
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Distance measures for image segmentation evaluation
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
Toward a generic evaluation of image segmentation
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
A measure for mutual refinements of image segmentations
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Tracking video objects in cluttered background
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Filling the gap in quality assessment of video object tracking
Image and Vision Computing
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The primary goal of the research on image segmentation is to produce better segmentation algorithms. In spite of almost 50 years of research and development in this field, the general problem of splitting an image into meaningful regions remains unsolved. New and emerging techniques are constantly being applied with reduced success. The design of each of these new segmentation algorithms requires spending careful attention judging the effectiveness of the technique. This paper demonstrates how the proposed methodology is well suited to perform a quantitative comparison between image segmentation algorithms using a ground-truth segmentation. It consists of a general framework already partially proposed in the literature, but dispersed over several works. The framework is based on the principle of eliminating the minimum number of elements such that a specified condition is met. This rule translates directly into a global optimization procedure and the intersection-graph between two partitions emerges as the natural tool to solve it. The objective of this paper is to summarize, aggregate and extend the dispersed work. The principle is clarified, presented striped of unnecessary supports and extended to sequences of images. Our study shows that the proposed framework for segmentation performance evaluation is simple, general and mathematically sound.