Research of Remote Sensing Image Segmentation Based on Mean Shift and Region Merging

2011 ◽  
Vol 90-93 ◽  
pp. 2836-2839 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Cui ◽  
Dong Ling Ma ◽  
Ming Yang Yu ◽  
Ying Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Mean Shift ◽  
Image Features ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Region Merging ◽  
Segmentation Method ◽  
Shift Method ◽  
Scale Parameters

In order to extract ground information more accurately, it is important to find an image segmentation method to make the segmented features match the ground objects. We proposed an image segmentation method based on mean shift and region merging. With this method, we first segmented the image by using mean shift method and small-scale parameters. According to the region merging homogeneity rule, image features were merged and large-scale image layers were generated. What’s more, Multi-level image object layers were created through scaling method. The test of segmenting remote sensing images showed that the method was effective and feasible, which laid a foundation for object-oriented information extraction.

Wear Particles Image Segmentation Method Based on Multiscale Mathematical Morphology

2010 ◽  
Vol 44-47 ◽  
pp. 3169-3173
Author(s):  
Guo De Wang ◽  
Pei Lin Zhang ◽  
Bing Li ◽  
Chao Xu ◽  
An Cheng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Mathematical Morphology ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Noise Suppression ◽  
Weighted Average ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Wear Particles ◽  
Segmentation Method ◽  
Structuring Element ◽  
Single Scale

Image segmentation plays an important role in wear particles analysis. A new segmentation method based on multiscale mathematical morphology is proposed for wear particles image segmentation. The newly introduced method employs different scale structuring elements to detect the image edge, the final edge is calculated by the weighted average method. Edge details can be remained by small scale structuring element (SE) and noise can be depressed effectively by large scale SE, therefore, the new method has great effect in edge accuracy, strong and weak edge extraction and noise suppression. The efficiency of the method is evaluated by a set of wear particles images. The comparison with the single scale SE and other traditional methods demonstrates the improvement of the new algorithm.

scholarly journals A Disparity Refinement Algorithm for Satellite Remote Sensing Images Based on Mean-Shift Plane Segmentation

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 1903
Author(s):  
Zhihui Li ◽  
Jiaxin Liu ◽  
Yang Yang ◽  
Jing Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Satellite Remote Sensing ◽  
Stereo Matching ◽  
Mean Shift ◽  
Segmentation Method ◽  
Remote Sensing Images ◽  
Edge Matching ◽  
Refinement Method ◽  
Initial Segmentation ◽  
Refinement Algorithm

Objects in satellite remote sensing image sequences often have large deformations, and the stereo matching of this kind of image is so difficult that the matching rate generally drops. A disparity refinement method is needed to correct and fill the disparity. A method for disparity refinement based on the results of plane segmentation is proposed in this paper. The plane segmentation algorithm includes two steps: Initial segmentation based on mean-shift and alpha-expansion-based energy minimization. According to the results of plane segmentation and fitting, the disparity is refined by filling missed matching regions and removing outliers. The experimental results showed that the proposed plane segmentation method could not only accurately fit the plane in the presence of noise but also approximate the surface by plane combination. After the proposed plane segmentation method was applied to the disparity refinement of remote sensing images, many missed matches were filled, and the elevation errors were reduced. This proved that the proposed algorithm was effective. For difficult evaluations resulting from significant variations in remote sensing images of different satellites, the edge matching rate and the edge matching map are proposed as new stereo matching evaluation and analysis tools. Experiment results showed that they were easy to use, intuitive, and effective.

FAST INTERACTIVE REGIONAL PATTERN MERGING FOR GENERIC TISSUE SEGMENTATION IN HISTOPATHOLOGY IMAGES

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150012
Author(s):  
Kuo-Lung Lor ◽  
Chung-Ming Chen
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Color Image ◽  
Linear Time ◽  
Mean Shift ◽  
Texture Features ◽  
Color Image Segmentation ◽  
Image Size ◽  
Region Merging ◽  
Tissue Segmentation ◽  
Regional Pattern

The image segmentation of histopathological tissue images has always been a challenge due to the overlapping of tissue color distributions, the complexity of extracellular texture and the large image size. In this paper, we introduce a new region-merging algorithm, namely, the Regional Pattern Merging (RPM) for interactive color image segmentation and annotation, by efficiently retrieving and applying the user’s prior knowledge of stroke-based interaction. Low-level color/texture features of each region are used to compose a regional pattern adapted to differentiating a foreground object from the background scene. This iterative region-merging is based on a modified Region Adjacency Graph (RAG) model built from initial segmented results of the mean shift to speed up the merging process. The foreground region of interest (ROI) is segmented by the reduction of the background region and discrimination of uncertain regions. We then compare our method against state-of-the-art interactive image segmentation algorithms in both natural images and histological images. Taking into account the homogeneity of both color and texture, the resulting semi-supervised classification and interactive segmentation capture histological structures more completely than other intensity or color-based methods. Experimental results show that the merging of the RAG model runs in a linear time according to the number of graph edges, which is essentially faster than both traditional graph-based and region-based methods.

HIGH-RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGE SEGMENTATION METHOD BASED ON SReLU

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenming Li ◽  
Xiaoyu Qu ◽  
Yao Yang ◽  
Hongmin Gao ◽  
Yongchang Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Image Segmentation ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Remote Sensing Image ◽  
Segmentation Method

scholarly journals Operational Large-Scale Segmentation of Imagery Based on Iterative Elimination

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 658 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Shepherd ◽  
Pete Bunting ◽  
John Dymond
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Ground Cover ◽  
Spectral Signature ◽  
Spectral Variation ◽  
Alos Palsar ◽  
Mapping Unit ◽  
Minimum Mapping Unit ◽  
Gis Software

Image classification and interpretation are greatly aided through the use of image segmentation. Within the field of environmental remote sensing, image segmentation aims to identify regions of unique or dominant ground cover from their attributes such as spectral signature, texture and context. However, many approaches are not scalable for national mapping programmes due to limits in the size of images that can be processed. Therefore, we present a scalable segmentation algorithm, which is seeded using k-means and provides support for a minimum mapping unit through an innovative iterative elimination process. The algorithm has also been demonstrated for the segmentation of time series datasets capturing both the intra-image variation and change regions. The quality of the segmentation results was assessed by comparison with reference segments along with statistics on the inter- and intra-segment spectral variation. The technique is computationally scalable and is being actively used within the national land cover mapping programme for New Zealand. Additionally, 30-m continental mosaics of Landsat and ALOS-PALSAR have been segmented for Australia in support of national forest height and cover mapping. The algorithm has also been made freely available within the open source Remote Sensing and GIS software Library (RSGISLib).

Machine learning-assisted region merging for remote sensing image segmentation

2020 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 89-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tengfei Su ◽  
Tingxi Liu ◽  
Shengwei Zhang ◽  
Zhongyi Qu ◽  
Ruiping Li
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Remote Sensing Image ◽  
Region Merging

scholarly journals Multi-Scale Remote Sensing Semantic Analysis Based on a Global Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Cui ◽  
Dongyou Zhang ◽  
Xin He ◽  
Meng Yao ◽  
Ziwei Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Receptive Field ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Semantic Information ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Memory Network ◽  
Long Short Term Memory

Remote sensing image captioning involves remote sensing objects and their spatial relationships. However, it is still difficult to determine the spatial extent of a remote sensing object and the size of a sample patch. If the patch size is too large, it will include too many remote sensing objects and their complex spatial relationships. This will increase the computational burden of the image captioning network and reduce its precision. If the patch size is too small, it often fails to provide enough environmental and contextual information, which makes the remote sensing object difficult to describe. To address this problem, we propose a multi-scale semantic long short-term memory network (MS-LSTM). The remote sensing images are paired into image patches with different spatial scales. First, the large-scale patches have larger sizes. We use a Visual Geometry Group (VGG) network to extract the features from the large-scale patches and input them into the improved MS-LSTM network as the semantic information, which provides a larger receptive field and more contextual semantic information for small-scale image caption so as to play the role of global perspective, thereby enabling the accurate identification of small-scale samples with the same features. Second, a small-scale patch is used to highlight remote sensing objects and simplify their spatial relations. In addition, the multi-receptive field provides perspectives from local to global. The experimental results demonstrated that compared with the original long short-term memory network (LSTM), the MS-LSTM’s Bilingual Evaluation Understudy (BLEU) has been increased by 5.6% to 0.859, thereby reflecting that the MS-LSTM has a more comprehensive receptive field, which provides more abundant semantic information and enhances the remote sensing image captions.

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