Unsupervised Texture Segmentation by Spectral-Spatial-Independent Clustering

  • Authors:
  • Giuseppe Scarpa;Michal Haindl

  • Affiliations:
  • Academy of Sciences CR, 18208 Prague, Czech Republic;Academy of Sciences CR, 18208 Prague, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • ICPR '06 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition - Volume 02
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A novel color texture unsupervised segmentation algorithm is presented which processes independently the spectral and spatial information. The algorithm is composed of two parts. The former provides an over-segmentation of the image, such that basic components for each of the textures which are present are extracted. The latter is a region growing algorithm which reduces drastically the number of regions, and provides a region-hierarchical texture clustering. The over-segmentation is achieved by means of a color-based clustering (CBC) followed by a spatial-based clustering (SBC). The SBC, as well as the subsequent growing algorithm, make use of a characterization of the regions based on shape and context. Experimental results are very promising in case of textures which are quite regular.