Tactile imaging using watershed-based image segmentation
Assets '00 Proceedings of the fourth international ACM conference on Assistive technologies
Normalized Gradient Vector Diffusion and Image Segmentation
ECCV '02 Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Computer Vision-Part III
Design and Analysis of an Efficient Evolutionary Image Segmentation Algorithm
Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems
A multichannel watershed-based algorithm for supervised texture segmentation
Pattern Recognition Letters
A Graph Based Object Description for Information Retrieval in Digital Image and Video Libraries
CBAIVL '99 Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Content-Based Access of Image and Video Libraries
Generalized Hough Transform Using Regions with Homogeneous Color
International Journal of Computer Vision
Segmentation of black and white cartoons
SCCG '03 Proceedings of the 19th spring conference on Computer graphics
Sea Ice Boundary Detection in SAR Satellite Images Using Conflicting Strength
CRV '04 Proceedings of the 1st Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision
Linear color segmentation and its implementation
Computer Vision and Image Understanding - Special issue on color for image indexing and retrieval
An Efficient Parameterless Quadrilateral-Based Image Segmentation Method
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
A fast watershed algorithm based on chain code and its application in image segmentation
Pattern Recognition Letters
Seeded region growing: an extensive and comparative study
Pattern Recognition Letters
International Journal of Computer Vision
Pattern Recognition Letters - Special issue: Evolutionary computer vision and image understanding
Image segmentation based on merging of sub-optimal segmentations
Pattern Recognition Letters
Geometric Analysis of Particle Motion in a Vector Image Field
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
An improved watershed algorithm based on efficient computation of shortest paths
Pattern Recognition
A Bayes-Based Region-Growing Algorithm for Medical Image Segmentation
Computing in Science and Engineering
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
A top-down region dividing approach for image segmentation
Pattern Recognition
WaterBalloons: A hybrid watershed Balloon Snake segmentation
Image and Vision Computing
Liver Isolation in Abdominal MRI
Journal of Medical Systems
International Journal of Remote Sensing
Segmentation of SBFSEM Volume Data of Neural Tissue by Hierarchical Classification
Proceedings of the 30th DAGM symposium on Pattern Recognition
Weighted fusion graphs: Merging properties and watersheds
Discrete Applied Mathematics
A Multicomponent Image Segmentation Framework
ACIVS '08 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems
Annotated Contraction Kernels for Interactive Image Segmentation
GbRPR '09 Proceedings of the 7th IAPR-TC-15 International Workshop on Graph-Based Representations in Pattern Recognition
Object density-based image segmentation and its applications in biomedical image analysis
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Watershed segmentation with boundary curvature ratio based merging criterion
SIP '07 Proceedings of the Ninth IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing
A Fuzzy Segmentation Method for Images of Heat-Emitting Objects
CIARP '09 Proceedings of the 14th Iberoamerican Conference on Pattern Recognition: Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications
Robust watershed segmentation using wavelets
Image and Vision Computing
Statistical Estimation of the Dynamics of Watershed Dams
International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
A novel approach to image segmentation using improved watershed transformation
Proceedings of the International Conference and Workshop on Emerging Trends in Technology
Image classification using marginalized kernels for graphs
GbRPR'07 Proceedings of the 6th IAPR-TC-15 international conference on Graph-based representations in pattern recognition
Deducing local influence neighbourhoods with application to edge-preserving image denoising
GbRPR'07 Proceedings of the 6th IAPR-TC-15 international conference on Graph-based representations in pattern recognition
Kernel fusion for image classification using fuzzy structural information
ISVC'07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Advances in visual computing - Volume Part II
Video segmentation for markerless motion capture in unconstrained environments
ISVC'07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Advances in visual computing - Volume Part II
An efficient segmentation technique for known touching objects using a genetic algorithm approach
AI'07 Proceedings of the 20th Australian joint conference on Advances in artificial intelligence
An evolutionary approach for ontology driven image interpretation
Evo'08 Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Applications of evolutionary computing
Unsupervised colour image segmentation using dual-tree complex wavelet transform
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Object oriented hierarchical classification of high resolution remote sensing images
ICIP'09 Proceedings of the 16th IEEE international conference on Image processing
Natural and remote sensing image segmentation using memetic computing
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
An improved anisotropic diffusion model for detail- and edge-preserving smoothing
Pattern Recognition Letters
Pattern Recognition Letters
Identifying touching and overlapping chromosomes using the watershed transform and gradient paths
Pattern Recognition Letters
Review article: Edge and line oriented contour detection: State of the art
Image and Vision Computing
Region and edge-adaptive sampling and boundary completion for segmentation
ISVC'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Advances in visual computing - Volume Part II
Towards hypothesis testing and lossy minimum description length: a unified segmentation framework
ACCV'10 Proceedings of the 10th Asian conference on Computer vision - Volume Part III
Learning invariant structure for object identification by using graph methods
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Satellite image segmentation with Shadowed C-Means
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Computational-geometry approach to digital image contour extraction
Transactions on computational science XIII
IVIC'11 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Visual informatics: sustaining research and innovations - Volume Part I
A fast dynamic border linking algorithm for region merging
ACIVS'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Advanced Concepts For Intelligent Vision Systems
Seeded region merging based on gradient vector flow for image segmentation
ACIVS'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Advanced Concepts For Intelligent Vision Systems
Suggested algorithms for blood cell images
SEAL'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning
IWCIA'04 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Combinatorial Image Analysis
Interactive 3d heart chamber partitioning with a new marker-controlled watershed algorithm
ISVC'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Advances in Visual Computing
Fast granular analysis based on watershed in microscopic mineral images
FSKD'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery - Volume Part II
Fuzzy sets theory based region merging for robust image segmentation
FSKD'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery - Volume Part I
Region merging for severe oversegmented images using a hierarchical social metaheuristic
EC'05 Proceedings of the 3rd European conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computing
PSIVT'06 Proceedings of the First Pacific Rim conference on Advances in Image and Video Technology
Fusion of edge information in markov random fields region growing image segmentation
ICIAR'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Image Analysis and Recognition - Volume Part I
Hand bone radiograph image segmentation with ROI merging
ACC'11/MMACTEE'11 Proceedings of the 13th IASME/WSEAS international conference on Mathematical Methods and Computational Techniques in Electrical Engineering conference on Applied Computing
PRICAI'12 Proceedings of the 12th Pacific Rim international conference on Trends in Artificial Intelligence
BI'12 Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Brain Informatics
Simple art as abstractions of photographs
Proceedings of the Symposium on Computational Aesthetics
Agriculture satellite image segmentation using a modified artificial Hopfield neural network
Computers in Human Behavior
Computers in Biology and Medicine
A novel model of image segmentation based on watershed algorithm
Advances in Multimedia
Natural Computing: an international journal
SAR image segmentation based on quantum-inspired multiobjective evolutionary clustering algorithm
Information Processing Letters
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A hybrid multidimensional image segmentation algorithm is proposed, which combines edge and region-based techniques through the morphological algorithm of watersheds. An edge-preserving statistical noise reduction approach is used as a preprocessing stage in order to compute an accurate estimate of the image gradient. Then, an initial partitioning of the image into primitive regions is produced by applying the watershed transform on the image gradient magnitude. This initial segmentation is the input to a computationally efficient hierarchical (bottom-up) region merging process that produces the final segmentation. The latter process uses the region adjacency graph (RAG) representation of the image regions. At each step, the most similar pair of regions is determined (minimum cost RAG edge), the regions are merged and the RAG is updated. Traditionally, the above is implemented by storing all RAG edges in a priority queue. We propose a significantly faster algorithm, which additionally maintains the so-called nearest neighbor graph, due to which the priority queue size and processing time are drastically reduced. The final segmentation provides, due to the RAG, one-pixel wide, closed, and accurately localized contours/surfaces. Experimental results obtained with two-dimensional/three-dimensional (2-D/3-D) magnetic resonance images are presented