Graph Cut Based Unsupervised Color Image Segmentation

Author(s):  
Liang Bin-mei ◽  
Zhang Jian-zhou

This paper proposes a Novel color image segmentation using Graph cut method by minimizing the weighted energy function. This method is applying a pair of optimal constraints namely: color constraint and gradient constraint. In the state-of-the-art methods, the background and foreground details are manually initialized and used for verifying the smoothness of the region. But in this proposed method, they are dynamically calculated from the input image. This feature of the proposed method can be used in color image segmentation where more number of unique segments exists in a single image. The genetic algorithm is applied to the graph obtained from the graph cut method. The crossover and mutation operators are applied on various subgraphs to populate the different segments.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Binmei Liang ◽  
Jianzhou Zhang

For unsupervised color image segmentation, we propose a two-stage algorithm, KmsGC, that combinesK-means clustering with graph cut. In the first stage,K-means clustering algorithm is applied to make an initial clustering, and the optimal number of clusters is automatically determined by a compactness criterion that is established to find clustering with maximum intercluster distance and minimum intracluster variance. In the second stage, a multiple terminal vertices weighted graph is constructed based on an energy function, and the image is segmented according to a minimum cost multiway cut. A large number of performance evaluations are carried out, and the experimental results indicate the proposed approach is effective compared to other existing image segmentation algorithms on the Berkeley image database.


2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 807-816 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Dong YUE ◽  
Duo-Qian MIAO ◽  
Cai-Ming ZHONG

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 2074-2076
Author(s):  
Hua LI ◽  
Ming-xin ZHANG ◽  
Jing-long ZHENG

1997 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 269-274
Author(s):  
R. Boussarsar ◽  
P. Martin ◽  
R. Lecordier ◽  
M. Ketata

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