Histogram-based segmentation in a perceptually uniform color space

  • Authors:
  • L. Shafarenko;H. Petrou;J. Kittler

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electron. Eng. Inf. Technol. & Math., Surrey Univ., Guildford;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

In this work, we present a segmentation algorithm for color images that uses the watershed algorithm to segment either the two-dimensional (2-D) or the three-dimensional (3-D) color histogram of an image. For compliance with the way humans perceive color, this segmentation has to take place in a perceptually uniform color space like the Luv space. To avoid oversegmentation, the watershed algorithm has to be applied to a smoothed histogram