A unified tensor level set for image segmentation

  • Authors:

  • Bin Wang;Xinbo Gao;Dacheng Tao;Xuelong Li

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an, China;School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an, China;School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore;State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics - Special issue on game theory
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper presents a new region-based unified tensor level set model for image segmentation. This model introduces a three-order tensor to comprehensively depict features of pixels, e.g., gray value and the local geometrical features, such as orientation and gradient, and then, by defining a weighted distance, we generalized the representative region-based level set method from scalar to tensor. The proposed model has four main advantages compared with the traditional representative method as follows. First, involving the Gaussian filter bank, the model is robust against noise, particularly the salt- and pepper-type noise. Second, considering the local geometrical features, e.g., orientation and gradient, the model pays more attention to boundaries and makes the evolving curve stop more easily at the boundary location. Third, due to the unified tensor pixel representation representing the pixels, the model segments images more accurately and naturally. Fourth, based on a weighted distance definition, the model possesses the capacity to cope with data varying from scalar to vector, then to high-order tensor.We apply the proposed method to synthetic, medical, and natural images, and the result suggests that the proposed method is superior to the available representative region-based level set method.