Bayesian image segmentation with mean shift

  • Authors:
  • Huiyu Zhou;Gerald Schaefer;M. Emre Celebi;Minrui Fei

  • Affiliations:
  • Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom;Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom;Louisiana State University, Shreveport, LA;Shanghai University, Shanghai, PR China

  • Venue:
  • ICIP'09 Proceedings of the 16th IEEE international conference on Image processing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Image segmentation plays a key role in many image content analysis applications, and a lot of effort has aimed at improving the performance of established segmentation algorithms. In this paper, we present a mean shift-based combined Dirichlet process mixture (MDP)/Markov Random Field (MRF) image segmentation algorithm. Our method incorporates a mean shift process to iteratively reduce the difference between the mean of cluster centres and image pixels within the standard MDP/MRF procedure. Experimental results show that the proposed segmentation technique outperforms the classical MDP/MRF algorithm.