Robust single-object image segmentation based on salient transition region

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 317-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuoyong Li ◽  
Guanghai Liu ◽  
David Zhang ◽  
Yong Xu
2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (12) ◽  
pp. 1214-1223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuoyong Li ◽  
Kezong Tang ◽  
Yong Cheng ◽  
Yong Hu

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. e0250631
Author(s):  
Zihan Li ◽  
Chen Li ◽  
Yudong Yao ◽  
Jinghua Zhang ◽  
Md Mamunur Rahaman ◽  
...  

Environmental Microorganism Data Set Fifth Version (EMDS-5) is a microscopic image dataset including original Environmental Microorganism (EM) images and two sets of Ground Truth (GT) images. The GT image sets include a single-object GT image set and a multi-object GT image set. EMDS-5 has 21 types of EMs, each of which contains 20 original EM images, 20 single-object GT images and 20 multi-object GT images. EMDS-5 can realize to evaluate image preprocessing, image segmentation, feature extraction, image classification and image retrieval functions. In order to prove the effectiveness of EMDS-5, for each function, we select the most representative algorithms and price indicators for testing and evaluation. The image preprocessing functions contain two parts: image denoising and image edge detection. Image denoising uses nine kinds of filters to denoise 13 kinds of noises, respectively. In the aspect of edge detection, six edge detection operators are used to detect the edges of the images, and two evaluation indicators, peak-signal to noise ratio and mean structural similarity, are used for evaluation. Image segmentation includes single-object image segmentation and multi-object image segmentation. Six methods are used for single-object image segmentation, while k-means and U-net are used for multi-object segmentation. We extract nine features from the images in EMDS-5 and use the Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier for testing. In terms of image classification, we select the VGG16 feature to test SVM, k-Nearest Neighbors, Random Forests. We test two types of retrieval approaches: texture feature retrieval and deep learning feature retrieval. We select the last layer of features of VGG16 network and ResNet50 network as feature vectors. We use mean average precision as the evaluation index for retrieval. EMDS-5 is available at the URL:https://github.com/NEUZihan/EMDS-5.git.


Author(s):  
Yu-Jin Zhang

Image segmentation is the key step from image processing to image analysis, and is an important technique of image engineering. Image segmentation based on transition region is a special or distinctive type of techniques that are different from traditional boundary-based or region-based techniques. Since the first technique using transition region proposed, there are many subsequent related researches and applications, and a series of papers in the literature citing are published worldwide. Using Google Scholar, a number of papers citing the original papers are searched, a study on the statistics of these papers is conducted. These papers are sorted first according to the publishing year, and then grouped according to their purposes and contents (with techniques used). Some questionable issues in these papers are pointed out and critically discussed, and several further research directions are indicated and analyzed.


Author(s):  
Sultan Ullah ◽  
Hamna Ikram ◽  
Qurat ul Ain ◽  
Habib Akbar ◽  
Mudasser A. Khan ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 303-306 ◽  
pp. 1109-1113
Author(s):  
Zhu Lin Wang ◽  
Bin Fang ◽  
Xi Wei Guo

Abstract. Image segmentation is a key technology in image engineering, it occupy an important position. This paper introduces the watershed transform to Image of monolithic circuit processing method, and then introduced the watershed transform to Image of monolithic circuit segmentation and sample. The results show that, by using the watershed algorithm and morphological processing function, which is connected with a plurality of object images are segmented into a plurality of single object, to achieve the image segmentation, and as far as possible to reduce or eliminate the phenomenon of over-segmentation. Finally it points out the further direction of research.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2(SI)) ◽  
pp. 0504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abu Bakar Et al.

Zernike Moments has been popularly used in many shape-based image retrieval studies due to its powerful shape representation. However its strength and weaknesses have not been clearly highlighted in the previous studies. Thus, its powerful shape representation could not be fully utilized. In this paper, a method to fully capture the shape representation properties of Zernike Moments is implemented and tested on a single object for binary and grey level images. The proposed method works by determining the boundary of the shape object and then resizing the object shape to the boundary of the image. Three case studies were made. Case 1 is the Zernike Moments implementation on the original shape object image. In Case 2, the centroid of the shape object image in Case 1 is relocated to the center of the image. In Case 3, the proposed method first detect the outer boundary of the shape object and then resizing the object to the boundary of the image. Experimental investigations were made by using two benchmark shape image datasets showed that the proposed method in Case 3 had demonstrated to provide the most superior image retrieval performances as compared to both the Case 1 and Case 2. As a conlusion, to fully capture the powerful shape representation properties of the Zernike moment, a shape object should be resized to the boundary of the image.


Author(s):  
Wei-Bang Chen ◽  
Chengcui Zhang

Inaccurate image segmentation often has a negative impact on object-based image retrieval. Researchers have attempted to alleviate this problem by using hierarchical image representation. However, these attempts suffer from the inefficiency in building the hierarchical image representation and the high computational complexity in matching two hierarchically represented images. This paper presents an innovative multiple-object retrieval framework named Multiple-Object Image Retrieval (MOIR) on the basis of hierarchical image representation. This framework concurrently performs image segmentation and hierarchical tree construction, producing a hierarchical region tree to represent the image. In addition, an efficient hierarchical region tree matching algorithm is designed for multiple-object retrieval with a reasonably low time complexity. The experimental results demonstrate the efficacy and efficiency of the proposed approach.


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