Convex colour sieves

  • Authors:
  • Stuart Gibson;Richard Harvey;Graham Finlayson

  • Affiliations:
  • University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK;University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK;University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

  • Venue:
  • Scale Space'03 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Scale space methods in computer vision
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Sieves and their variants are established processors for simplifying greyscale images. Because combined outputs of these filters satisfy the scale-space causality property they are often referred to as scale-space filters although they have quite different characteristics compared to systems based around diffusion. In this paper we implement several possible extensions of sieves for colour images which include: applying the processor on separate channels; and enforcing an ordering on the colour vectors. We show that a new definition, based on convex hulls in colour space, can lead to an effective algorithm. As with the greyscale method, the colour sieve produces a tree-based representation of image that form the first step to a meaningful hierarchical decomposition.