Unsupervised image segmentation using a hierarchical clustering selection process

  • Authors:
  • Adolfo Martínez-Usó;Filiberto Pla;Pedro García-Sevilla

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Jaume I Univerisity;Dept. Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Jaume I Univerisity;Dept. Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Jaume I Univerisity

  • Venue:
  • SSPR'06/SPR'06 Proceedings of the 2006 joint IAPR international conference on Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we present an unsupervised algorithm to select the most adequate grouping of regions in an image using a hierarchical clustering scheme. Then, we introduce an optimisation approach for the whole process. The grouping method presented is based on the maximisation of a measure that represents the perceptual decision. The whole strategy takes profit from a hierarchical clustering to find a maximum of the proposed criterion. The algorithm has been used to segment real images as well as multispectral images achieving very accurate results on this task.