Unsupervised Feature Selection and Learning for Image Segmentation

  • Authors:
  • Mohand Saïd Allili;Djemel Ziou;Nizar Bouguila;Sabri Boutemedjet

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CRV '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper we investigate the integration of feature selection in segmentation through an unsupervised learning approach. We propose a clustering algorithm that efficiently mitigates image under/over-segmentation, by combining generalized Gaussian mixture modeling and feature selection. The algorithm is based on generalized Gaussian mixture modeling which is less prone to region number over-estimation in case of noisy and heavy-tailed image distributions. On the other hand, our feature selection mechanism allows to automatically discard uninformative features, which leads to better discrimination and localization of regions in high-dimensional spaces. Experimental results on a large database of real-world images showed us the effectiveness of the proposed approach.