Distance measures for image segmentation evaluation

  • Authors:
  • Xiaoyi Jiang;Cyril Marti;Christophe Irniger;Horst Bunke

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Münster, Einsteinstrasse, Münster, Germany;Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of Bern, Neubrückstrasse, Bern, Switzerland;Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of Bern, Neubrückstrasse, Bern, Switzerland;Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of Bern, Neubrückstrasse, Bern, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The task considered in this paper is performance evaluation of region segmentation lgorithms in the ground-truth-based paradigm. Given a machine segmentation and a ground-truth segmentation, performance measures are needed. We propose to consider the image segmentation problem as one of data clustering and, as a consequence, to use measures for comparing clusterings developed in statistics and machine learning. By doing so, we obtain a variety of performance measures which have not been used before in image processing. In particular, some of these measures have the highly desired property of being a metric. Experimental results are reported on both synthetic and real data to validate the measures and compare them with others.