Maximum weight digital regions decomposable into digital star-shaped regions

  • Authors:
  • Matt Gibson;Dongfeng Han;Milan Sonka;Xiaodong Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA;Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA;Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA;Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

  • Venue:
  • ISAAC'11 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Algorithms and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We consider an optimization version of the image segmentation problem, in which we are given a grid graph with weights on the grid cells. We are interested in finding the maximum weight subgraph such that the subgraph can be decomposed into two "star-shaped" images. We show that this problem can be reduced to the problem of finding a maximum-weight closed set in an appropriately defined directed graph which is well known to have efficient algorithms which run very fast in practice. We also show that finding a maximum-weight subgraph that is decomposable into m star-shaped objects is NP-hard for some m 2.