MDS-based segmentation model for the fusion of contour and texture cues in natural images
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
LS-SVM based image segmentation using color and texture information
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
Color texture segmentation based on image pixel classification
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
A stochastic gravitational approach to feature based color image segmentation
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
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The purpose of this study is to investigate multiregion graph cut image partitioning via kernel mapping of the image data. The image data is transformed implicitly by a kernel function so that the piecewise constant model of the graph cut formulation becomes applicable. The objective function contains an original data term to evaluate the deviation of the transformed data, within each segmentation region, from the piecewise constant model, and a smoothness, boundary preserving regularization term. The method affords an effective alternative to complex modeling of the original image data while taking advantage of the computational benefits of graph cuts. Using a common kernel function, energy minimization typically consists of iterating image partitioning by graph cut iterations and evaluations of region parameters via fixed point computation. A quantitative and comparative performance assessment is carried out over a large number of experiments using synthetic grey level data as well as natural images from the Berkeley database. The effectiveness of the method is also demonstrated through a set of experiments with real images of a variety of types such as medical, synthetic aperture radar, and motion maps.